On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 08:04:43AM +0200, Kristoffer Haugsbakk wrote:

On Tue, Mar 28, 2023, at 00:25, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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""Revert^4 "A change" the other thread proposed start to look less horrible.
So, I dunno.

That looks good. And the transformations are just:

   Revert " → Reapply "
   Reapply " → Revert^3 "
   Revert^<n> " → Revert^<n+1> "

i thought about that already, and concluded that it's getting a bit "too 
nerdy" and over-engineered.
the main motivation for me is to break the dogmatism with which some 
people are approaching the matter - "$tool did it, so it is _the_ way".  
set an example where the tool does something "humane", and you may 
change some minds.
when it gets to round 3 of reverting, i expect people to get creative:

  Revert "foo" again
  Reapply "foo", take 2
  etc.

but i don't mind, as long as `Revert "Revert "Revert "foo"""` cannot be 
argued to be canon any more.