# Removing a merge commit 2 messages from 2008-12-10 to 2008-12-11. Participants: Ray Morgan, Jeff Whiteside. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/16673 ## Ray Morgan, 2008-12-10 20:20 Subject: Removing a merge commit Message-ID: <4A07B3ED-D048-4455-B4C3-5DAB1F8E6965@mac.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4A07B3ED-D048-4455-B4C3-5DAB1F8E6965%40mac.com ``` Hello, To build a release for our site, we merge branches that developers create. We do this with --no-ff in order to make it only one commit to pull if it fails QA. Say the qa branch's history has 4 merge commits in a row, is there any way to remove the 3rd (just pulling it out.. much like how a rebase works)? Currently we just checkout below that failed branch and re-merge everything above it.. but that just seems very clumsy (and manual). Thanks! Ray ``` ## Jeff Whiteside, 2008-12-11 00:24 Subject: Re: Removing a merge commit Message-ID: <3ab397d0812101624h77c5198bqd38f30dee1830605@mail.gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/3ab397d0812101624h77c5198bqd38f30dee1830605%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <4A07B3ED-D048-4455-B4C3-5DAB1F8E6965@mac.com> ``` Isn't this what you want? (taken from http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-rebase.html) A range of commits could also be removed with rebase. If we have the following situation: E---F---G---H---I---J topicA then the command git rebase --onto topicA~5 topicA~3 topicA would result in the removal of commits F and G: E---H'---I'---J' topicA On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Ray Morgan wrote: > Hello, > > To build a release for our site, we merge branches that developers create. > We do this with --no-ff in order to make it only one commit to pull if it > fails QA. Say the qa branch's history has 4 merge commits in a row, is there > any way to remove the 3rd (just pulling it out.. much like how a rebase > works)? > > Currently we just checkout below that failed branch and re-merge everything > above it.. but that just seems very clumsy (and manual). > > Thanks! > Ray > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > ```