From: Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu>
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:49:13 GMT
Subject: Re: How to push the very last modification only ?
Message-ID: <1311007753.18654.32.camel@drew-northup.unet.maine.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4E23F5CB.3090009@gmail.com>


On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 20:58 +1200, Chris Packham wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 18/07/11 19:47, J. Bakshi wrote:
> > Hello list,
> > 
> > I have found that during push, all local commit goes into the git 
> > server.
> 
> Yes that's the normal behaviour. When you think about what push is doing
> it's trying to make the remote branch the same as your local branch.
> 
> > Where I like to only push the very last modification with
> > a meaningful comment which will be available at the git server. How
> > can I then push only the last modified one ?
> 
> This is easily doable. What you need to do is prepare a branch that you
> do want to push. Something like this, assuming that your current branch
> is 'master' and you want to push to origin/master:
<snip>

Another way to do what Chris describes is to use Interactive Rebase (git
rebase -i) to squash commits together. Please read the manual page for
that carefully before using it on a production repository.
-- 
-Drew Northup
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