From: James P. Howard, II <jh@jameshoward.us>
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:43:27 GMT
Subject: Re: Delete a commit
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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