Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r117980: Merge from emacs-24; up to r117522.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 22:22:25 +0700
> From: Yuri Khan <address@hidden>
> Cc: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>, 
>       Emacs developers <address@hidden>
> 
> * A revert is the same thing as a cherry-pick, just with an opposite
> sign. Would you really want to fix a missing link of a cherry-picked
> commit to its original by introducing a few thousand reverts, all with
> missing links to the original commits they revert?
> 
> * Imagine a mergy graph on the branch being cherry-picked from. How do
> you revert that mergy clump? What if there are merges from that into
> the current branch?
> 
> ---o---o---o---o---o---o A
>     \     /
>      o---o---o---o B
>       \     /
>        o---o

Well, figure it out, and you get my thumbs-up!