Revert a range of commits in git

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What version of Git are you using?

Reverting multiple commits in only supported in Git1.7.2+: see “Rollback to an old commit using revert multiple times.” for more details.
The current git revert man page is only for the current Git version (1.7.4+).

As the OP Alex Spurling reports in the comments:

Upgrading to 1.7.4 works fine.
To answer my own question, this is the syntax I was looking for: 

git revert B^..D

B^ means “the first parent commit of B”: that allows to include B in the revert.
See “git rev-parse SPECIFYING REVISIONS section” which include the <rev>^, e.g. HEAD^ syntax: see more at “What does the caret (^) character mean?“)

Note that each reverted commit is committed separately.

Henrik N clarifies in the comments:

git revert OLDER_COMMIT^..NEWER_COMMIT

As shown below, you can revert without committing right away:

git revert -n OLDER_COMMIT^..NEWER_COMMIT
git commit -m "revert OLDER_COMMIT to NEWER_COMMIT"

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