I accidentally committed a changeset without a description and wanted to fix it. As I was pushing enter I realized that I didn’t want to commit yet. I have not pushed anywhere – an important requirement for this kind of revert.

I basically want to do a bk fix -c (if I recall my bk correctly).

Since git revert pollutes the history, it is not the right thing to do here since the bad changeset was not pushed. But it would be the right thing to do had I pushed my change.

After working almost exclusively with git for a few months, I had to do some work on a freebsd kernel. The freebsd kernel is maintained in mercurial. I noticed right away a few features that I have started to take for granted with git.

I’ve been working for Xelerance, mcr’s company, for a couple of weeks now. The project I am working on is mostly bringing KLIPS, openswan ipsec kernel module, into the 21st centry. Since KLIPS is a patch against the Linux kernel, it makes sense to keep it in git.