On Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 15:30:53 (-0500) Bill Lear writes:
>On Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 21:03:44 (+0100) Howard Miller writes:
>>Hello,
>>
>>I have a branch with a whole series of commits. I want to export this
>>work to be customer (to their svn repo if that has any bearing on it).
>>All the stuff in the history is irrelevant to my customer ("committing
>>now, going to bed" etc.) so I'd like to create a new branch that only
>>has one commit.. the end point with a new message. Is this possible?
>
>git rebase is your friend.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
% git branch
* master
% git checkout -b my_work_branch
% [work work work, commit, commit, commit]
% git rebase -i master
You'll then get an editor buffer that looks like this:
pick 16730c6 baz 0
pick 2a844e7 baz 1
pick d6e71dc baz 2
pick d1a6995 baz 3
pick 157e675 baz 4
# Rebase ef0a89e..157e675 onto ef0a89e
#
# Commands:
# p, pick = use commit
# e, edit = use commit, but stop for amending
# s, squash = use commit, but meld into previous commit
#
# If you remove a line here THAT COMMIT WILL BE LOST.
# However, if you remove everything, the rebase will be aborted.
#
Edit this to keep what you need:
pick 16730c6 baz 0
squash 2a844e7 baz 1
squash d6e71dc baz 2
squash d1a6995 baz 3
squash 157e675 baz 4
then exit the editor. It'll pop you in another editor session to
type in a commit message for these, just type in what you need and
exit and you'll have the new commit with all the olds ones squashed
into it.
Bill
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