Hello,

git revert for merges will mark merged files as deleted and commit
them as if they would have been deleted, but that is for sure never
what anybody would expect and has deleted many files unintentionally
and unrecognized in our repo shortly.

I have reproduced this issue in a very small example repo here:
https://gitlab.com/electrocnic/git-revert-destructive-behaviour/tree/master

Expected behaviour would be:

A reverted merge should never mark any files or directories as
"deleted", and merging the branch where the other merge has been
reverted should not lead to the deletion of those files.

I classify this behaviour as really really destructive and clearly a
bug, even if this behaviour is by intention. It should not be by
intention then..

Best regards,
Andreas

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