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authorJunio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org>2008-12-22 08:27:21 +0000
committerJunio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org>2008-12-22 08:27:21 +0000
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@@ -376,6 +376,12 @@ both will discard uncommitted changes in your working directory.</p></div>
the mainline and allows revert to reverse the change
relative to the specified parent.
</p>
+<div class="para"><p>Reverting a merge commit declares that you will never want the tree changes
+brought in by the merge. As a result, later merges will only bring in tree
+changes introduced by commits that are not ancestors of the previously
+reverted merge. This may or may not be what you want.</p></div>
+<div class="para"><p>See the <a href="howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt">revert-a-faulty-merge How-To</a> for
+more details.</p></div>
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@@ -433,7 +439,7 @@ effect to your index in a row.</p></div>
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-Last updated 2008-12-10 08:33:25 UTC
+Last updated 2008-12-22 08:27:06 UTC
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