revert: allow reverting a root commit

Although it is probably an uncommon operation, there is no
reason to disallow it, as it works just fine. It is the
reverse of a cherry-pick of a root commit, which is already
allowed.

We do have to tweak one check on whether we have a merge
commit, which assumed we had at least one parent.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>

Author: peff

builtin/revert.c

@@ -408,8 +408,6 @@ static int do_pick_commit(void)
 	discard_cache();
 
 	if (!commit->parents) {
-		if (action == REVERT)
-			die (_("Cannot revert a root commit"));
 		parent = NULL;
 	}
 	else if (commit->parents->next) {
@@ -467,7 +465,7 @@ static int do_pick_commit(void)
 		strbuf_addstr(&msgbuf, "\"\n\nThis reverts commit ");
 		strbuf_addstr(&msgbuf, sha1_to_hex(commit->object.sha1));
 
-		if (commit->parents->next) {
+		if (commit->parents && commit->parents->next) {
 			strbuf_addstr(&msgbuf, ", reversing\nchanges made to ");
 			strbuf_addstr(&msgbuf, sha1_to_hex(parent->object.sha1));
 		}