Re: Removing a commit from a local branch

> 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