On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 11:59:15AM -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

Gal Paikin wrote:

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The suggestion is to change the behavior to "Revert^N" instead of
multiple Reverts one after another.

This would be replacing one kind of jargon with another, so it's not
clear to me that it would improve matters.

With Revert / Reland, we can forget the N altogether: [...]

the irony here is that "reland" is of course yet more jargon. :-D
i'd strongly suggest to use something that actually appears in standard 
dictionaries, preferentially "reapply".

1. 'Do some great thing'
2. 'Revert "Do some great thing"'
3. 'Reland "Do some great thing"'
4. 'Revert "Do some great thing"'
5. (etc)

For the reader of the shortlog, it's not too important how long the
edit war has gone.  The single word makes it clear what the commit
is going to do.

in principle i agree, but it irks me somewhat that the summaries become 
non-unique, as that always somewhat impacts history browsing.