On 2019-12-27 11:13:47+0100, Gal Paikin [off-list ref] wrote:

Hi,
Thanks for the reply!

So the idea of changing from "Revert Revert" to "Reland", "reapply"
has a big problem: sometimes Revert^2 actually means 'reverting
"Revert"' since "Revert" introduced a bug that wasn't in the original
change.

So to your question, I don't know what Revert^47 means since it
depends on each individual case. Sometimes it actually means "Revert"
and sometimes it means "Reland".

So do people actually use it? Yes! Many users reported to me that it
is not that unusual to get to "Revert^6", and it is very usual and

I've seen Revert x6 in a code base, I couldn't get to know the reason
for that reversion war. I think it could be seen more in some in-house
web development that uses trunk-based development, code is being
tested with CI/CD, lightly tested, squash-merged to master,
then run into problem in staging (or worst, production, because not
enough traffix was generated for testing environment).

common to get to "Revert^2/3/4". It is also useful for the users to
know the number of the revert, according to the reports. Here is an
example:
https://android-review.googlesource.com/c/platform/art/+/352330
Feel free to also search for "Revert^2/3/4" to find many results.

Anyway, I am certain that "Revert^3" is better than "Revert revert
revert". There is definitely no clear way to solve this issue, but
perhaps "nth revert" would be a more "human language" solution?

In my very personal opinion, "nth revert" is a poor choice.
At a first glance, I would take it as:

	This is the "nth revert", after applying this patch n times.

-- 
Danh