From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:48:44 GMT
Subject: Re: Any way to "flatten" a series of changes in git
Message-ID: <4AE143BC.7040507@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <26ae428a0910221411l73aa7cbak5c060925ccdf4cea@mail.gmail.com>

Howard Miller schrieb:
> Actually thinking some more.... I don't understand something about
> this. I don't actually want to merge or rebase with anything. I just
> want to say "make those commits a series of commits on a branch into
> just one commit with a new message". I seriously suspect I'm missing
> the point somewhere but what has that got to do with merging or
> rebasing?

The easiest way (IMHO) to achieve this is certainly:

  # start a new branch at the tip of the series
  $ git checkout -b all-in-one the-series

  # squash 17 commits
  $ git reset --soft HEAD~17
  $ git commit

Now you have a new branch 'all-in-one' that has the same contents as the
original series 'the-series', but with only one commit:

  $ git diff the-series..all-in-one  # must show no differences

-- Hannes