Re: Any way to "flatten" a series of changes in git

[Daniele Segato <daniele.bilug@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Howard Miller
<howard@e-learndesign.co.uk> wrote:
>> git merge --squash topic

>> rebase --interactive it excellent for cleaning up history, especially [...]

> Brilliant, thanks everybody!! I'll go and back up my database and have
> a play with these options.


I don't think you need it.
when you rebase or squash git don't throw away your commits

when I do things like that I usually create a new branch to do my tests

if I'm happy with the result I can do

git checkout myRealBranch
git reset --hard myTestBranch
# do the push/svn dcommit/whatever

if I'm not happy I can start all over again just doing:

git checkout MyTestBranch
git reset --hard myRealBranch

regards,
Daniele