Julia Evans on Nostr: trying to read git's source code to understand how `git revert` and `git cherry-pick` ...

trying to read git's source code to understand how `git revert` and `git cherry-pick` are implemented using merge and it's a bit confusing https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/sequencer.c#L2353-L2358

(has anyone ever seen an explanation of how "revert" is actually secretly a merge under the hood? i have some ideas but it would be nice to read about it somewhere other than git's source code)