From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 13:31:54 GMT
Subject: Re: merging multiple commit into one?
Message-ID: <4A0828CA.3060405@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <1de9d39c0905110621p6858bca8y8bb036a167754672@mail.gmail.com>

jean-luc malet wrote:
> Hi,
> I often commit "useless" code, for example before going into weekend
> or for saving some state during a dev process
> often thoses commit are simply useless and the commit message looks
> like "COMPILE ERROR - temporary save .... "
> at the end I have LOT of theses commits that are useless and I want to
> save some space/time/tree complexity merge multiple sequential commits
> (without branch) into one
> is it possible?
> according to my knowledge of git, removing the commit and rewriting
> the last commit log so that it better reflect the modification will do
> the job but I'm not sure git allow it...
> thanks


git commit --amend; # to extend last commit only
git merge --squash; # I think. Not sure though, so read the docs
git rebase -i; # replace "pick" with "squash" to combine commits.

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