Re: Removing a commit from a local branch

["Chris Packham" <judge.packham@gmail.com>]

Thanks thats exactly what I was after.

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 2009.01.12 11:42:24 +1300, Chris Packham wrote:
>> Hi List,
>>
>> I'm part of a development team using git. We use a maintainer model
>> where developers send patches/pull requests to a maintainer who
>> applies the patches to a local branch, decides if they're good or not
>> and pushes the good patches to the public repository.
>>
>> What I want to do is script the removal of a bad patch so that the
>> maintainer identifies a patch in his local branch, sends an email to
>> the author telling them why their patch is being rejected then removes
>> the commit for that patch. Using git log a script can extract the
>> author email address, hash and headline of each commit. Based on that
>> information scripting the email is easy enough. Now I come to using
>> git rebase to remove the bad commit based on its hash which leads me
>> to my question - How do I refer to a commit based on the hash of its
>> parent?
>>
>> Consider the following example. The maintainer has the following branch locally
>>
>>   todeliver: A-B-C-D
>>
>> He is happy with commits A, C and D but wants to reject B. Ideally I
>> want to be able to say
>>   git rebase --onto <parent of B> <child of B> todelvier
>
> You don't want <child of B> there, just B.
>
> git rebase --onto <onto> <upstream> <branch>
>
> Rebases the commits from the range <upstream>..<branch>, and that
> _excludes_ the commit (referenced by) <upstream>.
>
> So:
> git rebase --onto B^ B todeliver
>
> Works on: B..todeliver == todeliver --not B
> And that range contains commits C and D.
>
> Björn
>