cygwin - How to abort the sequence of git commits being reverted -
i started git revert on long sequence of commits, not knowing -no-edit option. each commit being reverted pops editor. quitting editor without saving "aborts" revert, particular commit being reverted - exits git pops edit window next commit in sequence being reverted. the man page on web shows option --abort want, tried using (in different window), , usage message: $ git revert --abort live-20121111..v2.1-master usage: git revert [options] <commit-ish> i'm using cygwin git version 1.7.5.1, presumably --abort option introduced in newer version. how can cleanly stop whole sequence start on --no-edit option? don't want have quit hundreds of editor sessions. the manual revert --abort can replaced git reset --hard . have effect of stopping loop albeit errors complaining refs/heads branch not @ commit expected when quit editor. do git log (to check commit generated git revert), , select sha1 of commit want reset to. that being said, us...