The revert command will take the patches introduced by the commit you want to revert and apply the reverse/anti-patch to the working tree. If all goes well, that is, there are no conflicts, a new commit will be made. While reverting a merge commit, only the changes introduced in the mainline (the -m option) will be kept, and all the changes introduced in the other side of the merge will be reverted.
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