Remove 4 commits from my git history
Solution 1
You can do an interactive rebase.
Assuming your head is at ab1c41c
from your example, invoke the rebase as follows
git rebase -i HEAD~7
This tells git you want to manipulate the last 8 or so commits. You'll be dropped into your editor with a listing of the commits and some instructions.
Delete the lines that contain the commits to remove, save and quit. Git will preform the rebase, and that's it.
Keep in mind, because of the rebase, if you want to push to the same branch you'll need to pass the option --force
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Disclaimer Rebasing and force pushing can cause you to lose work or piss people off, so just make sure you understand what you're doing. :)
Solution 2
As Blake Taylor mentioned here, you can use interactive rebase to reorder commits (or) remove intermediate commits.
But that must be done, before you push those commits into public repository. Refer here. In your case, those commits are already available in the public repo. So, I don't suggest using rebase.
If you don't want those commits in your working directory.
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a) Create a branch, which points to 86f2509 (the last stable commit in your working tree).
git checkout -b <branch name> 86f2509
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b)
Cherry Pick
those commits you want. In your caseab1c41c
and8b38955
.git cherry-pick 8b38955 ab1c41c
Now your working directory will not have those unwanted commits.
Hommer Smith
Updated on June 23, 2022Comments
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Hommer Smith about 2 years
I have done some commits and pushed them into my repository. Then I did a pull request but I realized there are some commits I don't want to be in the pull request.
They look like this:
My commits look like this: Correct HTML ab1c41c HTML escaping 8b38955 Merge branch 'master' into internationalized 2854662 Modified config b942f13 tried pushing b73d792 Added assets f20106e Added config 408118f Fixed views conflicts 86f2509 added layouts da27e11 Fixed layout markup 92d6bcc
If I want to get rid of these commits:
Modified config b942f13 tried pushing b73d792 Added assets f20106e Added config 408118f
How do I do it? Notice that I want to keep these ones which are before in time that the ones i want to delete:
Correct HTML ab1c41c HTML escaping 8b38955