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Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:33:50 +0100
From: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, git@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Simplified GIT usage guide
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On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 06:28:27PM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> +REVERTING COMMITTED CHANGES
> +---------------------------
> +
> +And sometimes you'll want to revert changes that you've committed, but that are
> +now buried beneath other commits.  Short of discarding and reapplying commits,
> +you have to apply a reverse patch:
> +
> +	git diff %COMMIT_ID | patch -p1 -R
> +
> +and then commit it.  Both the original application and the reversion will be
> +retained by GIT.

"git revert $commit" is a bit shorter.

Marcin
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