Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] replay: add --revert option to reverse commit changes

From: Siddharth Asthana <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2025 00:58:40 +0530

On 26/11/25 01:09, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>>> Dedup with do_pick_commit() where this was taken from.  Possibly in
>>> a separte patch before the main one.
>> Forgot to attach this at the end.  What I meant was that something
>> along this line may be a good starting point.
>>
>>   sequencer.c | 14 +-------------
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 13 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git c/sequencer.c w/sequencer.c
>> index e6d82c8368..29909952d4 100644
>> --- c/sequencer.c
>> +++ w/sequencer.c
>> @@ -2365,20 +2365,8 @@ static int do_pick_commit(struct repository *r,
>>   		if (opts->commit_use_reference) {
>>   			strbuf_commented_addf(&ctx->message, comment_line_str,
>>   				"*** SAY WHY WE ARE REVERTING ON THE TITLE LINE ***");
>> -		} else if (skip_prefix(msg.subject, "Revert \"", &orig_subject) &&
>> -			   /*
>> -			    * We don't touch pre-existing repeated reverts, because
>> -			    * theoretically these can be nested arbitrarily deeply,
>> -			    * thus requiring excessive complexity to deal with.
>> -			    */
>> -			   !starts_with(orig_subject, "Revert \"")) {
>> -			strbuf_addstr(&ctx->message, "Reapply \"");
>> -			strbuf_addstr(&ctx->message, orig_subject);
>> -			strbuf_addstr(&ctx->message, "\n");
>>   		} else {
>> -			strbuf_addstr(&ctx->message, "Revert \"");
>> -			strbuf_addstr(&ctx->message, msg.subject);
>> -			strbuf_addstr(&ctx->message, "\"\n");
>> +			sequencer_format_revert_header(&ctx->message, msg.subject);
>>   		}
>>   		strbuf_addstr(&ctx->message, "\nThis reverts commit ");
>>   		refer_to_commit(opts, &ctx->message, commit);
> By the way, I probably would not be queuing this version today, as
> this has obvious conflict with a large code movement made by
> Patrick's "history" series, which itself is expecting a reroll.
>
> Perhaps collect review comments on this iteration a bit more and
> wait for that other topic to be rerolled, and if it turns out to be
> solid enough, base a v2 of this patch on top of it?

Understood. I will wait for Patrick's "history" series to be rerolled 
and base v2 on top of that to avoid conflicts. In the meantime, I will 
address all the review feedback locally.

Thanks,
Siddharth

> Thanks.