Re: collapsing commits with rebase

From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss@iguanasuicide.net>
Date: Jan 8, 2009, 02:11 UTC
Message-ID: <200901072011.37299.bss@iguanasuicide.net>
In-Reply-To: <93c3eada0901071608r190a723bma502b68c4ab81a08@mail.gmail.com>

On Wednesday 2009 January 07 18:08:44 Geoff Russell wrote:

>I have a series of commits:
>
>    A---B---C---D---E---F

Assuming you also have a ref (e.g. Foo) that points to F: git checkout sha(B) git merge -s sha(D) git rebase --onto $(cat .git/HEAD) sha(E) Foo

should do what you want.

After the checkout: A -> B [HEAD] -> C -> D -> E -> F [Foo] (detached HEAD)

After the merge:
A -> B -> C -> D -> E -> F [Foo]
     |
     +--> [HEAD]
(detached HEAD)

After the rebase:
A -> B -> E' -> F' [Foo, HEAD]
     |
     +--> C -> D -> E -> F
(C, D, E, and F will be pruned at some point)

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