> -----Original Message----- > From: Chip Childers [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 6:07 PM > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Commit 8d53b1ef05a45604d76b2cf80094f688edf15b44 > > On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 03:54:51PM +0000, Nitin Mehta wrote: > > David - It seems like I messed up my merge here. It wasn't done as a > > single commit and therefore the difficulty of reverting it back. > > Would you have any suggestions to revert it here ? > > AFAIK, you need to go through and revert all relevant commits. I'd do it > sooner rather than later too... so that it's not harder. > > I may be wrong though... >
This is a nice write up of the evilness of reverting merges: http://opensource.apple.com/source/Git/Git-26/src/git-htmldocs/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt You can technically use the revert -m on the merge commit. But you have to take some steps in the future if you want to merge that same (fixed) merge again. Cheers, Hugo > > > > On 13/05/13 8:52 PM, "David Nalley" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >Speaking of, I saw lots of stuff in that merge that didn't appear to > > >be related to your merge. I am concerned that it effectively reverted > > >a number of things. > > > > > >--David > > > > > >On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Nitin Mehta > > ><[email protected]> > > >wrote: > > >> Sure. Looking into it. > > >> > > >> On 13/05/13 8:14 PM, "Hugo Trippaers" > > >> <[email protected]> > > >> wrote: > > >> > > >>>Nitin, > > >>> > > >>>Can you please fix your commit with id > > >>>8d53b1ef05a45604d76b2cf80094f688edf15b44 > > >>> > > >>>You committed a file with conflicts (docs/en-US/gslb.xml) and it's > > >>>breaking the docs build. > > >>> > > >>> > > >>>Cheers, > > >>> > > >>>Hugo > > >> > > > >
