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diff --git a/Documentation/git-revert.txt b/Documentation/git-revert.txt index 98cfa3c0d0..caa07298a6 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-revert.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-revert.txt @@ -15,6 +15,15 @@ Given one existing commit, revert the change the patch introduces, and record a new commit that records it. This requires your working tree to be clean (no modifications from the HEAD commit). +Note: 'git revert' is used to record a new commit to reverse the +effect of an earlier commit (often 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 +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 +both will discard uncommitted changes in your working directory. + OPTIONS ------- <commit>:: |