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From: Seb <spluque@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: interactive rebase results across shared histories
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 17:05:37 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87egc358ou.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 56CCE3C2.1050608@moritzneeb.de

On Tue, 23 Feb 2016 23:57:06 +0100,
Moritz Neeb <lists@moritzneeb.de> wrote:

[...]

>> OK, I've followed this advice and looked at the dependency graphs in
>> gitk before and after rebasing, I've managed to obtain what I was
>> after.  The repository now has two branches: master and topic.
>> However, Gitk reveals a problem with a string of commits that are not
>> part of any branch:

>> A---B---H---I (master) \ C---D---E (loose string of commits) \
>> D'---E'---F---G (topic)

>> How do I remove these loose commits (C, D, E)?


> what you might be after is "git gc". But I never used it, it was not
> neccesary for me. I would let the automatic garbage collection drop my
> dangling commits. It's safer - who knows when you will still want to
> restore your recent "loose string of commits".

> How exactly are the loose commits causing trouble?

Sure enough, these dangling commits were removed automatically without
any intervention.  All is good.

Thanks!

-- 
Seb

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-02-23 23:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-20 22:58 interactive rebase results across shared histories Seb
2016-02-21  2:12 ` Moritz Neeb
2016-02-21 17:25   ` Seb
2016-02-21 19:08     ` Eric Sunshine
2016-02-22  3:32       ` Seb
2016-02-22  7:41   ` David
2016-02-23 17:39   ` Seb
2016-02-23 22:57     ` Moritz Neeb
2016-02-23 23:04       ` Kevin Daudt
2016-02-23 23:05       ` Seb [this message]
2016-02-26 12:38         ` David
2016-02-26 21:12           ` Seb
2016-02-26 22:56             ` Stepan Kasal

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