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git-revert documentation: refer to new HOWTO on reverting faulty merges

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Signed-off-by: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr <bss@iguanasuicide.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@ -44,6 +44,14 @@ OPTIONS
option specifies the parent number (starting from 1) of
the mainline and allows revert to reverse the change
relative to the specified parent.
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Reverting a merge commit declares that you will never want the tree changes
brought in by the merge. As a result, later merges will only bring in tree
changes introduced by commits that are not ancestors of the previously
reverted merge. This may or may not be what you want.
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See the link:howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt[revert-a-faulty-merge How-To] for
more details.
--no-edit::
With this option, 'git-revert' will not start the commit