Note: 'git revert' is used to record some new commits to reverse the
effect of some earlier commits (often only a faulty one). If you want to
throw away all uncommitted changes in your working directory, you
-should see linkgit:git-reset[1], particularly the '--hard' option. If
+should see linkgit:git-reset[1], particularly the `--hard` option. If
you want to extract specific files as they were in another commit, you
should see linkgit:git-checkout[1], specifically the `git checkout
<commit> -- <filename>` syntax. Take care with these alternatives as
For a more complete list of ways to spell commit names, see
linkgit:gitrevisions[7].
Sets of commits can also be given but no traversal is done by
- default, see linkgit:git-rev-list[1] and its '--no-walk'
+ default, see linkgit:git-rev-list[1] and its `--no-walk`
option.
-e::
With this option, 'git revert' will not start the commit
message editor.
+--cleanup=<mode>::
+ This option determines how the commit message will be cleaned up before
+ being passed on to the commit machinery. See linkgit:git-commit[1] for more
+ details. In particular, if the '<mode>' is given a value of `scissors`,
+ scissors will be appended to `MERGE_MSG` before being passed on in the case
+ of a conflict.
+
-n::
--no-commit::
Usually the command automatically creates some commits with
-s::
--signoff::
Add Signed-off-by line at the end of the commit message.
+ See the signoff option in linkgit:git-commit[1] for more information.
--strategy=<strategy>::
Use the given merge strategy. Should only be used once.
Pass the merge strategy-specific option through to the
merge strategy. See linkgit:git-merge[1] for details.
+--rerere-autoupdate::
+--no-rerere-autoupdate::
+ Allow the rerere mechanism to update the index with the
+ result of auto-conflict resolution if possible.
+
SEQUENCER SUBCOMMANDS
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include::sequencer.txt[]