From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:48:07 GMT
Subject: Re: Removing a commit from a local branch
Message-ID: <m3hc45zcgq.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <a038bef50901111442y16695664y4fed7cdd9d8af27@mail.gmail.com>

"Chris Packham" <judge.packham@gmail.com> writes:

> Consider the following example. The maintainer has the following
> branch locally
> 
>   todeliver: A-B-C-D
> 
> He is happy with commits A, C and D but wants to reject B. Ideally I
> want to be able to say
>   git rebase --onto <parent of B> <child of B> todelvier
> 
> and get
>   todeliver: A-C'-D'
> 
> I know that <parent of B> can be referred to as B~1 but what about
> <child of B>? I've read through the man page for git-rev-parse and
> nothing stands out as child of commit X.
> 
> Is there a better what do achieve what I'm after?

Yes, I think it would be easier to either use "git rebase --interactive"
(with some script taking place of EDITOR, or something), or prod Stephan
Beyer (CC-ed) to finish git-sequencer...

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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