Re: how to squash two commits into only one

From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 29, 2011, 12:49 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTinjbXzdfkxVRPPSXJj6Z0mMrikzdi2V8N5YAGR-@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <5A9D499C-26AC-401E-B21A-1F8E03FBAC4B@gmail.com>

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Joshua Juran <jjuran@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mar 29, 2011, at 3:58 AM, Alex Riesen wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 12:10, Lynn Lin <lynn.xin.lin@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 07:42, Lynn Lin <lynn.xin.lin@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>  I have only have two commits in repo,then I want to squash these
>>>>> two commit into one through git rebase -i .However it fails
>>>>>
>>>>> $ git rebase -i HEAD^1
>>>>> it only show up one commit so can't squash (can't squash without a
>>>>> previous commit)
>>>>
>>>> $ git rebase -i HEAD~2
>>>>
>>> only have two commits
>>
>> Uh. That's unusual.
>>
>> Than yes, "git reset HEAD^; git commit --amend" seems the best solution.
>
> Actually, that should be:  `git reset --soft HEAD^; git commit --amend`.

"git rebase --root" does not seem a bad idea though. I need to amend initial commit a few times and end up using "git reset" without --soft.

-- 
Duy