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-rw-r--r--builtin-revert.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/builtin-revert.c b/builtin-revert.c
index 62ab1fa1f4..afc28845f2 100644
--- a/builtin-revert.c
+++ b/builtin-revert.c
@@ -246,7 +246,9 @@ static int revert_or_cherry_pick(int argc, const char **argv)
if (no_commit) {
/*
* We do not intend to commit immediately. We just want to
- * merge the differences in.
+ * merge the differences in, so let's compute the tree
+ * that represents the "current" state for merge-recursive
+ * to work on.
*/
if (write_tree(head, 0, NULL))
die ("Your index file is unmerged.");