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From:   Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de>
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On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 12:20:03PM +0100, Phillip Wood wrote:
>I'm saying that reverting a commit with a subject line
>
>	Revert "Revert "Revert some subject""
>
>should result in the new commit having the subject
>
>	Revert "Revert "Revert "Revert some subject"""
>
>(i.e. at that point we stop trying to be clever) rather than
>
>	Revert "Reapply "Revert some subject""
>
right.
how about filing that under GIGO and extending the comment?
i mean, when you actually run into this situation, you should be 
re-thinking your life choices rather than stressing about git producing 
a somewhat suboptimal commit message template ...

regards,
ossi