From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Geoff Russell" <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com>
Subject: collapsing commits with rebase
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 10:38:44 +1030
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Dear gits,

I have a series of commits:

    A---B---C---D---E---F

I want to collapse B---C---D into one single commit. git rebase -i B  will allow
me to do this, but I'm looking for a non-interactive incantation.

Cheers,
Geoff Russell


P.S. The context is a program that performs a single high level
operation on a repository
as a series of commits but then wants to turn  it back into a single
commit without
user intervention so it subsequently looks like a single op in the history.