From: Jacob Helwig <jacob.helwig@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: pascal@obry.net, git list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: reverting initial commit
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:33:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8c9a060903251133x33749041oc2a5152097da0ae8@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v1vsl4fxo.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:26, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net> writes:
>
>> Starting a new project I create a new repo and added some files for the
>> initial revision of the project, something like:
>>
>> mkdir repo.git
>> cd repo.git
>> git init
>> touch file
>> git add file
>> git ci -m "initial revision"
>>
>> Now one file was not meant to be committed, I wanted to revert this commit:
>
> That's not even an revert. Can't you simply amend it away?
>
> $ git rm not-this-file
> $ git commit --amend
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This is obviously the easier way. (Or a rebase --interactive) I've
just got filter-branch on the brain, because of a git conversion.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-25 18:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-25 18:12 reverting initial commit Pascal Obry
2009-03-25 18:20 ` Jacob Helwig
2009-03-25 18:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-03-25 18:33 ` Jacob Helwig [this message]
2009-03-25 19:45 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2009-03-25 20:40 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-03-25 21:22 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2009-03-25 21:06 ` Eric Raible
2009-03-25 18:36 ` Pascal Obry
2009-03-25 18:40 ` Junio C Hamano
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