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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Cc: Michael Hendricks <michael@ndrix.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: removing content from git history
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:17:38 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070221171738.GA9112@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070221165636.GH25559@spearce.org>

On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 11:56:36AM -0500, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> Now this is actually not a huge deal if you do it on your local
> repository and go "whoops, I should not have committed that".  If you
> have not yet pushed the commit to another repository (and someone
> has not yet fetched it from you either) you can use git-rebase to
> discard it.

Also it can't have done any (non-fast-forward) merges since then.

Reconstructing history with a bunch of merges seems like something that
could be a huge pain.  (Though with some tools it might be doable.)

--b.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-21 17:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-21 16:45 removing content from git history Michael Hendricks
2007-02-21 16:56 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-21 17:17   ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2007-02-21 18:02     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-21 18:24       ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-21 21:00       ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-21 21:11         ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-21 21:21           ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-09 20:58             ` Bill Lear
2007-10-09 21:02               ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-10-09 22:25                 ` Bill Lear
2007-10-10 14:41               ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-21 17:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-21 18:02   ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-21 18:13     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-21 18:39       ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-21 18:30   ` Michael Hendricks
2007-02-21 18:37     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-21 18:47     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-21 18:56       ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-21 18:52     ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-21 19:01   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-21 19:33     ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-21 20:22       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-21 20:49         ` Nicolas Pitre

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