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Re: what is "rebase"?

From
Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date
Nov 20, 2005, 02:12 UTC
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Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> Is this what I would use if I want to discard history except for
> major milestones?
> 
No.
> Still not sure what "cherry-pick" is either. And that's *not*
> in the glossary. :)
> 
man git-cherry-pick
> I'm just worried about my archive getting bigger and bigger and
> having lots of junk in it that I can't get rid of.
>

If you do experimental development on a branch and want to throw stuff away (commits, tags, whatnot), you should run "git-reset". It can bring any combination of index and working tree back to any commit in the history of that branch.

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