What's missing from our changelogs: Reverts [LWN.net]

What's missing from our changelogs: Reverts

Posted Jul 29, 2013 18:32 UTC (Mon) by aliguori (guest, #30636)
In reply to: What's missing from our changelogs: Reverts by PaulMcKenney
Parent article: What's missing from our changelogs

Yes, reverts need a Signed-off-by. git-revert even has a -s option for it.

A revert is not the same thing as making the commit never exist. Often they do not apply cleanly and it's very hard for a reviewer to know whether the author of the revert had to apply logic to resolve conflicts.

What's missing from our changelogs: Reverts

Posted Jul 30, 2013 8:25 UTC (Tue) by jezuch (subscriber, #52988) [Link]

> A revert is not the same thing as making the commit never exist. Often they do not apply cleanly and it's very hard for a reviewer to know whether the author of the revert had to apply logic to resolve conflicts.

It would be useful if revert commits looked like (or simply were) merges. I sometimes do it by hand, but that's awkward.