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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: Delete a commit
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:17:51 +0100
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Johan 't Hart <johanthart@gmail.com> writes:

> Bertram Scharpf schreef:
>> Hi,
>
>>   % git fsck --lost-found
>>   dangling commit 6abc221327e896c850c56dafae92277bcfe68e2b
>>
>> It is still there. This is the one I want to delete.
>
> It is not in the history of any head anymore, so you could consider it
> deleted. ('git log' does not show this commit)

Except through the reflog, most likely.

Andreas.

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