@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ where A and B are on the side development that was not so good, M is the
3737merge that brings these premature changes into the mainline, x are changes
3838unrelated to what the side branch did and already made on the mainline,
3939and W is the "revert of the merge M" (doesn't W look M upside down?).
40- IOW, "diff W^..W" is similar to "diff -R M^..M".
40+ IOW, ` "diff W^..W"` is similar to ` "diff -R M^..M"` .
4141
4242Such a "revert" of a merge can be made with:
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@@ -121,9 +121,9 @@ If you reverted the revert in such a case as in the previous example:
121121 ---A---B A'--B'--C'
122122
123123where Y is the revert of W, A' and B' are rerolled A and B, and there may
124- also be a further fix-up C' on the side branch. "diff Y^..Y" is similar
125- to "diff -R W^..W" (which in turn means it is similar to "diff M^..M"),
126- and "diff A'^..C'" by definition would be similar but different from that,
124+ also be a further fix-up C' on the side branch. ` "diff Y^..Y"` is similar
125+ to ` "diff -R W^..W"` (which in turn means it is similar to ` "diff M^..M"` ),
126+ and ` "diff A'^..C'"` by definition would be similar but different from that,
127127because it is a rerolled series of the earlier change. There will be a
128128lot of overlapping changes that result in conflicts. So do not do "revert
129129of revert" blindly without thinking..
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