Revert doesn’t just move head back, it creates reversal commits. As such, merging again can happen since the changes are present and require a merge commit
There are situations where it does actually cause problems when you want to merge the branch again. It knows that those specific commits have already been reverted once, so it doesn’t apply them…
What happens when you want to merge again? Won’t it say already up to date or something cause the commits are already there?
Revert doesn’t just move head back, it creates reversal commits. As such, merging again can happen since the changes are present and require a merge commit
There are situations where it does actually cause problems when you want to merge the branch again. It knows that those specific commits have already been reverted once, so it doesn’t apply them…
See also: https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt (especially line 56)