@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ where A and B are on the side development that was not so good, M is the
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ where A and B are on the side development that was not so good, M is the
merge that brings these premature changes into the mainline, x are changes
unrelated to what the side branch did and already made on the mainline,
and W is the "revert of the merge M" (doesn't W look M upside down?).
IOW, "diff W^..W" is similar to "diff -R M^..M".
IOW, `"diff W^..W"` is similar to `"diff -R M^..M"`.
Such a "revert" of a merge can be made with:
@ -121,9 +121,9 @@ If you reverted the revert in such a case as in the previous example:
@@ -121,9 +121,9 @@ If you reverted the revert in such a case as in the previous example:
---A---B A'--B'--C'
where Y is the revert of W, A' and B' are rerolled A and B, and there may
also be a further fix-up C' on the side branch. "diff Y^..Y" is similar
to "diff -R W^..W" (which in turn means it is similar to "diff M^..M"),
and "diff A'^..C'" by definition would be similar but different from that,
also be a further fix-up C' on the side branch. `"diff Y^..Y"` is similar
to `"diff -R W^..W"` (which in turn means it is similar to `"diff M^..M"`),
and `"diff A'^..C'"` by definition would be similar but different from that,
because it is a rerolled series of the earlier change. There will be a
lot of overlapping changes that result in conflicts. So do not do "revert