Re: removing content from git history

From: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Date: Feb 21, 2007, 17:17 UTC
Message-ID: <20070221171738.GA9112@fieldses.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070221165636.GH25559@spearce.org>

On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 11:56:36AM -0500, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

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> Now this is actually not a huge deal if you do it on your local
> repository and go "whoops, I should not have committed that".  If you
> have not yet pushed the commit to another repository (and someone
> has not yet fetched it from you either) you can use git-rebase to
> discard it.

Also it can't have done any (non-fast-forward) merges since then.

Reconstructing history with a bunch of merges seems like something that could be a huge pain. (Though with some tools it might be doable.)

--b.