From patchwork Mon Aug 21 17:07:20 2023 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Oswald Buddenhagen X-Patchwork-Id: 13359674 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FCD8EE49A6 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2023 17:07:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S236950AbjHURH3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Aug 2023 13:07:29 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:50038 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S236927AbjHURH1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Aug 2023 13:07:27 -0400 Received: from bluemchen.kde.org (bluemchen.kde.org [209.51.188.41]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3806E103 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2023 10:07:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ugly.fritz.box (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bluemchen.kde.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8F87241CE; Mon, 21 Aug 2023 13:07:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ugly.fritz.box (masqmail 0.3.6-dev, from userid 1000) id 1qY8N6-QKQ-00; Mon, 21 Aug 2023 19:07:20 +0200 From: Oswald Buddenhagen To: git@vger.kernel.org Cc: Junio C Hamano , Linus Arver , Phillip Wood , Kristoffer Haugsbakk Subject: [PATCH v4 2/2] git-revert.txt: add discussion Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2023 19:07:20 +0200 Message-Id: <20230821170720.577850-2-oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.40.0.152.g15d061e6df In-Reply-To: <20230821170720.577850-1-oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de> References: <20230809171531.2564807-1-oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de> <20230821170720.577850-1-oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org The section is inspired by git-commit.txt. Signed-off-by: Oswald Buddenhagen --- v4: - adjusted summary prefix & payload wording Cc: Junio C Hamano Cc: Linus Arver Cc: Phillip Wood Cc: Kristoffer Haugsbakk --- Documentation/git-revert.txt | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/git-revert.txt b/Documentation/git-revert.txt index d2e10d3dce..cbe0208834 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-revert.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-revert.txt @@ -142,6 +142,16 @@ EXAMPLES changes. The revert only modifies the working tree and the index. +DISCUSSION +---------- + +While git creates a basic commit message automatically, it is +_strongly_ recommended to explain why the original commit is being +reverted. +In addition, repeatedly reverting reverts will result in increasingly +unwieldy subject lines, for example 'Reapply "Reapply """'. +Please consider rewording these to be shorter and more unique. + CONFIGURATION -------------