collapsing commits with rebase

collapsing commits with rebase

[Geoff Russell]

Dear gits,

I have a series of commits:

    A---B---C---D---E---F

I want to collapse B---C---D into one single commit. git rebase -i B  will allow
me to do this, but I'm looking for a non-interactive incantation.

Cheers,
Geoff Russell


P.S. The context is a program that performs a single high level
operation on a repository
as a series of commits but then wants to turn  it back into a single
commit without
user intervention so it subsequently looks like a single op in the history.

Re: collapsing commits with rebase

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, Geoff Russell wrote:

> Dear gits,
> 
> I have a series of commits:
> 
>     A---B---C---D---E---F
> 
> I want to collapse B---C---D into one single commit. git rebase -i B 
> will allow me to do this, but I'm looking for a non-interactive 
> incantation.

You set GIT_EDITOR to a script ;-)

Alternatively, something like this should work for you:

	$ git checkout A
	$ git read-tree -u -m D
	$ git commit -m "My message"
	$ git cherry-pick E
	$ git cherry-pick F

Hth,
Dscho

Re: collapsing commits with rebase

[Geoff Russell]

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, Geoff Russell wrote:
>
>> Dear gits,
>>
>> I have a series of commits:
>>
>>     A---B---C---D---E---F
>>
>> I want to collapse B---C---D into one single commit. git rebase -i B
>> will allow me to do this, but I'm looking for a non-interactive
>> incantation.
>
> You set GIT_EDITOR to a script ;-)

This is plan B.

>
> Alternatively, something like this should work for you:
>
>        $ git checkout A
>        $ git read-tree -u -m D
>        $ git commit -m "My message"
>        $ git cherry-pick E
>        $ git cherry-pick F

Plan B is looking good, because I'd generally like the commit message to be the
concatenation of the messages for B,C and D.

Many thanks.

Geoff.

Re: collapsing commits with rebase

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, Geoff Russell wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Johannes Schindelin
> <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> > Alternatively, something like this should work for you:
> >
> >        $ git checkout A
> >        $ git read-tree -u -m D
> >        $ git commit -m "My message"
> >        $ git cherry-pick E
> >        $ git cherry-pick F
> 
> Plan B is looking good, because I'd generally like the commit message to 
> be the concatenation of the messages for B,C and D.

Replace the commit call by this:

	$ for commit in B C D
	  do
		git cat-file commit $commit | sed '1,/^$/d'
		# possibly add an empty line between the commit messages,
		# git commit will strip away empty lines at the end.
	  done |
	  git commit -F -

Hth,
Dscho

Re: collapsing commits with rebase

[Geoff Russell]

On 1/8/09, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, Geoff Russell wrote:
>
>  > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Johannes Schindelin
>  > <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>  >
>
> > > Alternatively, something like this should work for you:
>  > >
>  > >        $ git checkout A
>  > >        $ git read-tree -u -m D
>  > >        $ git commit -m "My message"
>  > >        $ git cherry-pick E
>  > >        $ git cherry-pick F
>  >
>  > Plan B is looking good, because I'd generally like the commit message to
>  > be the concatenation of the messages for B,C and D.
>
>
> Replace the commit call by this:
>
>         $ for commit in B C D
>           do
>                 git cat-file commit $commit | sed '1,/^$/d'
>                 # possibly add an empty line between the commit messages,
>                 # git commit will strip away empty lines at the end.
>           done |
>           git commit -F -
>
>  Hth,
>  Dscho

That makes sense, many thanks.

Cheers,
Geoff.

Re: collapsing commits with rebase

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

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On Wednesday 2009 January 07 18:08:44 Geoff Russell wrote:
>I have a series of commits:
>
>    A---B---C---D---E---F

Assuming you also have a ref (e.g. Foo) that points to F:
git checkout sha(B)
git merge -s sha(D)
git rebase --onto $(cat .git/HEAD) sha(E) Foo

should do what you want.

After the checkout:
A -> B [HEAD] -> C -> D -> E -> F [Foo]
(detached HEAD)

After the merge:
A -> B -> C -> D -> E -> F [Foo]
     |
     +--> [HEAD]
(detached HEAD)

After the rebase:
A -> B -> E' -> F' [Foo, HEAD]
     |
     +--> C -> D -> E -> F
(C, D, E, and F will be pruned at some point)
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Re: collapsing commits with rebase

[Miklos Vajna]

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On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 08:11:32PM -0600, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss@iguanasuicide.net> wrote:
> git merge -s sha(D)

You probably mean --squash here, -s stands for --strategy - and I *hope*
you don't have git-sha(D) in your PATH, as a custom merge strategy. ;-)

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Re: collapsing commits with rebase

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

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On Wednesday 2009 January 07 20:32:24 Miklos Vajna wrote:
>On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 08:11:32PM -0600, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." 
<bss@iguanasuicide.net> wrote:
>> git merge -s sha(D)
>
>You probably mean --squash here, -s stands for --strategy - and I *hope*
>you don't have git-sha(D) in your PATH, as a custom merge strategy. ;-)

Oops.  Yes.  My mistake.
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Re: collapsing commits with rebase

[Geoff Russell]

On 1/8/09, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss@iguanasuicide.net> wrote:
> On Wednesday 2009 January 07 20:32:24 Miklos Vajna wrote:
>  >On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 08:11:32PM -0600, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr."
>  <bss@iguanasuicide.net> wrote:
>  >> git merge -s sha(D)
>  >
>  >You probably mean --squash here, -s stands for --strategy - and I *hope*
>  >you don't have git-sha(D) in your PATH, as a custom merge strategy. ;-)
>

Many thanks, now I have plenty of ways to think about!

Cheers,
Geoff.

Re: collapsing commits with rebase

[Sitaram Chamarty]

On 2009-01-08, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss@iguanasuicide.net> wrote:
>>    A---B---C---D---E---F

> Assuming you also have a ref (e.g. Foo) that points to F:
> git checkout sha(B)
> git merge -s sha(D)

I think you now need to do a commit (assuming you meant
"--squash").  Squash will not commit, and your rebase below
(if it runs at all -- I suspect it will refuse to run) will
hard reset to B, the current HEAD.  IOW

> After the merge:
> A -> B -> C -> D -> E -> F [Foo]
>      |
>      +--> [HEAD]

is not true.  You have C+D in the index, not in the tree.

> git rebase --onto $(cat .git/HEAD) sha(E) Foo

Also I think you have an off-by-one error here; you need
sha(D) in that rebase command, not sha(E).

As your rebase command stands, you will lose commit E
completely; neither the merge nor the rebase will pick it
up.

[Haven't tested, but I *think* I understand rebase well
enough now to say so...]

Re: collapsing commits with rebase

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

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On Wednesday 2009 January 07 22:09:15 Sitaram Chamarty wrote:
>[Haven't tested, but I *think* I understand rebase well
>enough now to say so...]

Probably understand it better than me.  I just haven't needed to use it for 
this that much.  This also might not be much better than setting GIT_PAGER to 
a script, but it seems less fragile to me.
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Re: collapsing commits with rebase

[nadim khemir]

On Thursday 08 January 2009 01.08.44 Geoff Russell wrote:
> Dear gits,
>
> I have a series of commits:
>
>     A---B---C---D---E---F
>
> I want to collapse B---C---D into one single commit. git rebase -i B  will
> allow me to do this, but I'm looking for a non-interactive incantation.

Hi Geoff, Could you please share with use the final (tested) solution? I'd be 
interrested to see how you did implement plan B if you did.

Cheers, Nadim.