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From: Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: How to push the very last modification only ?
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:58:51 +1200
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Hi,

On 18/07/11 19:47, J. Bakshi wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> I have found that during push, all local commit goes into the git 
> server.

Yes that's the normal behaviour. When you think about what push is doing
it's trying to make the remote branch the same as your local branch.

> Where I like to only push the very last modification with
> a meaningful comment which will be available at the git server. How
> can I then push only the last modified one ?

This is easily doable. What you need to do is prepare a branch that you
do want to push. Something like this, assuming that your current branch
is 'master' and you want to push to origin/master:

  # first create temporary a branch to use while you're delivering
  git checkout -b delivery origin/master

  # now cherry pick the commits you do want to push. I usually use
  # gitk and cherry-pick from the right-click menu, but for simplicity
  # I'll use git cherry-pick here.
  git cherry-pick master
  # you can provide a commit id instead of 'master'.

  # at this point you could also use git commit --amend to add any
  # final tweaks to the commit

  # check that your delivery branch is good using git log/gitk. Build,
  # test, etc

  # now push it to your local delivery branch to the remote master
  # branch
  git push origin delivery:master

  # now do some cleanup
  git checkout master
  git branch -d delivery
  git rebase origin/master