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@@ -8,14 +8,14 @@ Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 21:39:02 -0700
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Message-ID: <7voe7g3uop.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
-Reverting an existing commit
-============================
+How to revert an existing commit
+================================
One of the changes I pulled into the 'master' branch turns out to
-break building GIT with GCC 2.95. While they were well intentioned
+break building Git with GCC 2.95. While they were well-intentioned
portability fixes, keeping things working with gcc-2.95 was also
important. Here is what I did to revert the change in the 'master'
-branch and to adjust the 'pu' branch, using core GIT tools and
+branch and to adjust the 'pu' branch, using core Git tools and
barebone Porcelain.
First, prepare a throw-away branch in case I screw things up.
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ $ make clean test ;# make sure it did not cause other breakage.
------------------------------------------------
Everything is in the good order. I do not need the temporary branch
-nor tag anymore, so remove them:
+or tag anymore, so remove them:
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$ rm -f .git/refs/tags/pu-anchor
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ $ git pull . master
Packing 0 objects
Unpacking 0 objects
-* committish: e3a693c... refs/heads/master from .
+* commit-ish: e3a693c... refs/heads/master from .
Trying to merge e3a693c... into 8c1f5f0... using 10d781b...
Committed merge 7fb9b7262a1d1e0a47bbfdcbbcf50ce0635d3f8f
cache.h | 8 ++++----