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From: "Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <code@khaugsbakk.name>
To: "Oswald Buddenhagen" <oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de>
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"Phillip Wood" <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] sequencer: beautify subject of reverts of reverts
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2023 22:12:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <568b853a-cf71-4262-86be-7b65cf066d93@app.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230902072035.652549-1-oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de>

On Sat, Sep 2, 2023, at 09:20, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> Instead of generating a silly-looking `Revert "Revert "foo""`, make it
> a more humane `Reapply "foo"`.

Congrats on a nice series. It's very “lean and mean”—focused, not
excessive.

And I think I will remember the phrase “too nerdy” for a while. ;)

Maybe we will get this message template the next time we revert a
merge.[1]

> If you merge the updated side branch (with D at its tip), none of the
> changes made in A or B will be in the result, because they were reverted
> by W.  That is what Alan saw.
>
> [...]
>
> In such a situation, you would want to first revert the previous revert,
> which would make the history look like this: ...

🔗 1: https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt

Cheers

-- 
Kristoffer

      parent reply	other threads:[~2023-09-11 21:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-04-28  8:35 [PATCH v2] sequencer: beautify subject of reverts of reverts Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-04-28 18:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-28 19:11   ` Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-05-01 16:44     ` Junio C Hamano
2023-05-01 19:10       ` Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-05-01 19:12         ` Junio C Hamano
2023-05-05 17:25     ` Junio C Hamano
2023-05-17  9:05 ` Phillip Wood
2023-05-17 10:00   ` Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-05-17 11:20     ` Phillip Wood
2023-05-17 17:02       ` Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-05-18  9:58         ` Phillip Wood
2023-05-18 16:28           ` Junio C Hamano
2023-07-28  5:26             ` Linus Arver
2023-07-28  9:45               ` Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-07-28 15:10                 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-07-28 15:37                   ` Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-07-28 16:31                     ` Junio C Hamano
2023-07-28 16:47                       ` Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-07-28 17:36                   ` Linus Arver
2023-08-09 17:15 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] " Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-08-09 17:15   ` [PATCH v3 2/2] doc: revert: add discussion Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-08-10 21:50     ` Linus Arver
2023-08-10 22:00       ` Linus Arver
2023-08-11 15:10         ` Phillip Wood
2023-08-12  6:25           ` Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-08-13 22:09             ` Junio C Hamano
2023-08-14 14:13               ` Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-08-11 12:49       ` Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-08-11 23:00         ` Linus Arver
2023-08-12  7:19           ` Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-09-07 21:29             ` Linus Arver
2023-08-11 15:08       ` Phillip Wood
2023-08-11 17:10         ` Junio C Hamano
2023-08-11 17:05       ` Junio C Hamano
2023-08-11 17:44         ` Re* " Junio C Hamano
2023-08-11 17:53           ` Junio C Hamano
2023-08-11 17:56             ` rsbecker
2023-08-11 18:16           ` Eric Sunshine
2023-08-11 18:16           ` Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-08-11 19:43             ` Junio C Hamano
2023-08-11 15:05   ` [PATCH v3 1/2] sequencer: beautify subject of reverts of reverts Phillip Wood
2023-08-11 16:59     ` Junio C Hamano
2023-08-11 17:13       ` Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-08-21 17:07   ` [PATCH v4 " Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-08-21 17:07     ` [PATCH v4 2/2] git-revert.txt: add discussion Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-08-21 18:32     ` [PATCH v4 1/2] sequencer: beautify subject of reverts of reverts Junio C Hamano
2023-08-23 20:08     ` Taylor Blau
2023-08-23 21:38       ` Junio C Hamano
2023-08-24  6:14         ` Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-09-02  7:20         ` [PATCH v5] " Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-09-02 22:24           ` Junio C Hamano
2023-09-11 20:12           ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk [this message]

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