RE: Undoing merges

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Hi again Matt,

Thanks for the reply.

> > Hi git list,
> >
> > I'm trying to find out how to undo a merge.
> 
> When sitting on a merge commit,
> 
>   git reset --merge HEAD^
> 
> will undo this merge commit (i.e. pretend the merge has never
> occurred, at least in your branch). Don't do that if you already
> published this merge commit.

The problem that I'm far past the merge commit.

> > I know that my branches are independent and that I can just carry on
> > working on them and merge again later, but I'm just trying to keep
> > my revision graph tidier. Should I even be undoing merges?
> 
> If it's about cleaning up your history, "git rebase" is your friend,
> too (with the same limitation: don't do that on published history). By
> default, it does some kind of history flattening.

I had a look at the git-rebase man page and it showed to remove a commit
from the middle of a range of commits. I think as I am on longer on the
merge commit and cannot use "git reset --merge HEAD^", I can rebase all
the commits from the commit just after the merge onto the commit just
before the merge and that will remove the merge. Unfortunately I didn't
get a change to try that out so I don't know whether it will work or
not.

Richard

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