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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Gergely Buday <gbuday@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: removing a commit from a branch
Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 04:45:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110504084502.GC8512@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimtpvVRU=1iCbrteyHixaWGuVKDjQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 10:35:08AM +0200, Gergely Buday wrote:

> I have a problematic commit in a series of commits on a branch. It
> contains adding a large binary file, which I would like to avoid to
> push to our main repository. How can I remove that from the series of
> commits? A command-line solution, please, if possible.

Removing it will involve rewriting history, which can create headaches
for people who have built on that history (they will need to rebase
their commits on the rewritten history). But if that's OK, then the
command you want is filter-branch. See "git help filter-branch"; in
particular, the EXAMPLES section contains commands to do exactly what
you want.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-04  8:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-04  8:35 removing a commit from a branch Gergely Buday
2011-05-04  8:45 ` Jeff King [this message]
2011-05-04  8:55   ` Gergely Buday
2011-05-04  9:17 ` Peter Krefting
2011-05-04 17:53   ` Dirk Süsserott
2011-05-04 19:12     ` Sorry, completely off-topic. I've a mailer problem (was: Re: removing a commit from a branch) Dirk Süsserott
2011-05-04 21:28       ` Øyvind A. Holm
     [not found]       ` <4DC1B103.90007@cisco.com>
2011-05-05 18:59         ` Sorry, completely off-topic. I've a mailer problem Dirk Süsserott

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