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From: Jacob Helwig <jacob.helwig@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: reverting initial commit
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:33:34 -0700
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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. =C2=A0Can't you simply amend it away?
>
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0$ git rm not-this-file
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0$ 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.