From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 02:12:27 GMT
Subject: Re: what is "rebase"?
Message-ID: <437FDB8B.8030707@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <86psow6pxl.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>

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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