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Re: Combining/merging commits

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Xxpr1010 <volition1980@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 15, 2008, 12:43 UTC
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Worked. Thanks! :)
On 15 Apr, 08:37, Johannes Sixt <j.s...@viscovery.net> wrote:
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> xpr1010 schrieb:
>
> > I have made several commits that should really have only been one, but
> > there was a lot of back and forth because of my inherent clumsiness.
> > Is there any way to combine or merge these commits to one?
>
> Say, you have this commit series:
>
>  ...--A--B--C--D
>
> and you want to combine all of them, i.e. the last 4 commits, into a new
> one, then you can do:
>
>     # undo commits, but leave working directory unchanged
>     $ git reset HEAD~4
>     # make a new commit
>     $ git commit
>
> But if you want to combine only A,B,C because D should remain a separate
> commit (i.e. what you want to combine are *not* the last commits), then
> use git rebase --interactive, in particular, the 'squash' instruction. You
> would use this todo list:
>
>     pick A
>     squash B
>     squash C
>     pick D
>
> -- Hannes
>
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