--- /dev/null
+#!/bin/sh
+
+test_description='revert can handle submodules'
+
+. ./test-lib.sh
+. "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/lib-submodule-update.sh
+
+# Create a revert that moves from HEAD (including any test modifications to
+# the work tree) to $1 by first checking out $1 and reverting it. Reverting
+# the revert is the transition we test for. We tar the current work tree
+# first so we can restore the work tree test setup after doing the checkout
+# and revert. We test here that the restored work tree content is identical
+# to that at the beginning. The last revert is then tested by the framework.
+git_revert () {
+ git status -su >expect &&
+ ls -1pR * >>expect &&
+ tar czf "$TRASH_DIRECTORY/tmp.tgz" * &&
+ git checkout "$1" &&
+ git revert HEAD &&
+ rm -rf * &&
+ tar xzf "$TRASH_DIRECTORY/tmp.tgz" &&
+ git status -su >actual &&
+ ls -1pR * >>actual &&
+ test_cmp expect actual &&
+ git revert HEAD
+}
+
+KNOWN_FAILURE_CHERRY_PICK_SEES_EMPTY_COMMIT=1
+KNOWN_FAILURE_NOFF_MERGE_DOESNT_CREATE_EMPTY_SUBMODULE_DIR=1
+test_submodule_switch "git_revert"
+
+test_done