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Re: Removing a merge commit

From
JWJeff Whiteside <jeff.m.whiteside@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 11, 2008, 00:24 UTC
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Isn't this what you want? (taken from http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-rebase.html)

A range of commits could also be removed with rebase. If we have the following situation:

    E---F---G---H---I---J  topicA
then the command
git rebase --onto topicA~5 topicA~3 topicA
would result in the removal of commits F and G:
    E---H'---I'---J'  topicA
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Ray Morgan <raycmorgan@mac.com> wrote:
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> Hello,
>
> To build a release for our site, we merge branches that developers create.
> We do this with --no-ff in order to make it only one commit to pull if it
> fails QA. Say the qa branch's history has 4 merge commits in a row, is there
> any way to remove the 3rd (just pulling it out.. much like how a rebase
> works)?
>
> Currently we just checkout below that failed branch and re-merge everything
> above it.. but that just seems very clumsy (and manual).
>
> Thanks!
> Ray
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  1. Ray MorganDec 10, 2008
  2. Jeff WhitesideDec 11, 2008

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