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From: xpr1010 <volition1980@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Combining/merging commits
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:43:34 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6e6761f0-7457-4674-a935-92d00c294b21@b9g2000prh.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48044D15.6040801@viscovery.net>

Worked. Thanks! :)

On 15 Apr, 08:37, Johannes Sixt <j.s...@viscovery.net> wrote:
> xpr1010 schrieb:
>
> > I have made several commits that should really have only been one, but
> > there was a lot of back and forth because of my inherent clumsiness.
> > Is there any way to combine or merge these commits to one?
>
> Say, you have this commit series:
>
>  ...--A--B--C--D
>
> and you want to combine all of them, i.e. the last 4 commits, into a new
> one, then you can do:
>
>     # undo commits, but leave working directory unchanged
>     $ git reset HEAD~4
>     # make a new commit
>     $ git commit
>
> But if you want to combine only A,B,C because D should remain a separate
> commit (i.e. what you want to combine are *not* the last commits), then
> use git rebase --interactive, in particular, the 'squash' instruction. You
> would use this todo list:
>
>     pick A
>     squash B
>     squash C
>     pick D
>
> -- Hannes
>
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      reply	other threads:[~2008-04-15 12:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-15  0:57 Combining/merging commits xpr1010
2008-04-15  6:37 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-04-15 12:43   ` xpr1010 [this message]

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