From: Giuseppe Bilotta Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:45:19 GMT Subject: Re: reverting initial commit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <8c9a060903251133x33749041oc2a5152097da0ae8@mail.gmail.com> On Wednesday 25 March 2009 19:33, Jacob Helwig wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:26, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> >> That's not even an revert.  Can't you simply amend it away? >> >>        $ git rm not-this-file >>        $ git commit --amend > > This is obviously the easier way. (Or a rebase --interactive) Actually, rebase --interactive cannot be used to amend the first commit. This is something that has hit me a couple of times when I realised, after the second or third commit, that I needed to fix the first one. I found the fastest way in this case to be to just format-patch all but the first commit, reset --hard to the first commit, amend, and git am what I format- patched. I wish there was a way to tell rebase -i to go back to the first commit, inclusive, but the two or three times I've tried hacking at it I never managed to come to anything useful 8-/ -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta