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Re: Delete a commit

From
James P. Howard, II <jh@jameshoward.us>
Date
Dec 19, 2009, 23:43 UTC
Message-ID
<20091219234327.GA45385@byzantine.jameshoward.us>
In-Reply-To
<20091219233957.GC29111@marge.bs.l>
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 12:39:57AM +0100, Bertram Scharpf wrote:
> I fetched a line from the shell's history and accidentally hit
> enter before editing it. Then I had commited some work that was
> not completed. Is there a way to get rid of that commit as if it
> never were there?
If you have committed nothing else in the interim, 
  git reset HEAD~1
James
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James P. Howard, II, MPA MBCS
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  1. Bertram ScharpfDec 19, 2009
  2. James P. Howard, IIDec 19, 2009
  3. Johan 't HartDec 20, 2009
  4. Bertram ScharpfDec 20, 2009
  5. Pascal ObryDec 20, 2009
  6. Johan 't HartDec 21, 2009
  7. Andreas SchwabDec 21, 2009
  8. Bertram ScharpfDec 21, 2009

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