# Question about rewrite commits

4 messages from 2009-05-05 to 2009-05-05. Participants: Anner van Hardenbroek, Ferry Huberts (Pelagic), Dirk Süsserott.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/19185

## Anner van Hardenbroek, 2009-05-05 11:45

Subject: Question about rewrite commits
Message-ID: <15aa6cf30905050445k21f8317bt7be65857604cc101@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/15aa6cf30905050445k21f8317bt7be65857604cc101%40mail.gmail.com

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Hi!

I've a question about rewriting commits. I'd like to change the
branches so that "Introduced BTRmxSoapArgument, second fase + code
cleanup." is right below (a straight vertical line) "No HTML errors
because we have nice ones!". How can I do that?

Thanks,
Anner.

--
Anner van Hardenbroek,
dwlnetnl@gmail.com

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## Ferry Huberts (Pelagic), 2009-05-05 12:52

Subject: Re: Question about rewrite commits
Message-ID: <4A003677.3040802@pelagic.nl>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4A003677.3040802%40pelagic.nl
In-Reply-To: <15aa6cf30905050445k21f8317bt7be65857604cc101@mail.gmail.com>

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Anner van Hardenbroek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I've a question about rewriting commits. I'd like to change the
> branches so that "Introduced BTRmxSoapArgument, second fase + code
> cleanup." is right below (a straight vertical line) "No HTML errors
> because we have nice ones!".

it already is :-)

or did you mean that you want to get rid of the merge? that's an
entirely different question

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## Anner van Hardenbroek, 2009-05-05 13:27

Subject: Re: Question about rewrite commits
Message-ID: <15aa6cf30905050627i5c8f4a8ftb33444f0a292ac6f@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/15aa6cf30905050627i5c8f4a8ftb33444f0a292ac6f%40mail.gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <4A003677.3040802@pelagic.nl>

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Yeah, okay but I'd like it visually.

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Ferry Huberts (Pelagic)
<ferry.huberts@pelagic.nl> wrote:
>
> Anner van Hardenbroek wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I've a question about rewriting commits. I'd like to change the
> > branches so that "Introduced BTRmxSoapArgument, second fase + code
> > cleanup." is right below (a straight vertical line) "No HTML errors
> > because we have nice ones!".
>
> it already is :-)
>
> or did you mean that you want to get rid of the merge? that's an
> entirely different question



--
Anner van Hardenbroek,
dwlnetnl@users.sourceforge.net

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## Dirk Süsserott, 2009-05-05 19:46

Subject: Re: Question about rewrite commits
Message-ID: <4A009791.6010704@dirk.my1.cc>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4A009791.6010704%40dirk.my1.cc
In-Reply-To: <15aa6cf30905050445k21f8317bt7be65857604cc101@mail.gmail.com>

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Hi Anner,

I had these 'cosmetic' problems as well and did the surgery like this:

I assume that your commits
    'Introduced...',
    'No HTML...', and
    'A page can now ...'
are on branch 'master' and the righthand track is on branch 
'console-mvc' which starts at 'Introduced...'.
Finally you did 'git checkout master; git merge console-mvc'.

I did the following:
     - give a tag (say 'foo') to the 'No HTML...' commit
     - rebase the console-mvc branch to that tag:
         $ git rebase foo console-mvc
       this will yield to a weird road map in gitk. Don't bother.
     - rebase the master to the new console-mvc branch:
         $ git rebase console-mvc master
       the history will now be linear.
     - remove the tag 'foo'

You may, of course, omit the tagging when you know the sha1's of the 
commits. In your case you will, as they're displayed in gitk.
[ In theory there's a way to identify commits by their commit message 
(see manpage of git-rev-parse), but I didn't make it work. As I 
understood "git show :/foo" would mention the latest commit whose commit 
message starts with 'foo', but I only got error messages. ]

Be noticed that rewriting history isn't a good idea if you already have 
published your work. Your coworkers may get disturbed. ;-)

Hope this helps,

     Dirk


Am 05.05.2009 13:45 schrieb Anner van Hardenbroek:
> Hi!
> 
> I've a question about rewriting commits. I'd like to change the
> branches so that "Introduced BTRmxSoapArgument, second fase + code
> cleanup." is right below (a straight vertical line) "No HTML errors
> because we have nice ones!". How can I do that?
> 
> Thanks,
> Anner.
> 
> --
> Anner van Hardenbroek,
> dwlnetnl@gmail.com
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 

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