Re: squash commits deep down in history

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W dniu 2014-10-23 22:08, Johannes Sixt pisze:
Am 23.10.2014 um 14:34 schrieb Henning Moll:

i need to squash several commits into a single one in a automated
way. I know that there is interactive rebase, which can also be
automated using GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR. Unfortunately my history is very
large and i need to squash deep down in the history several times. So
using interactive rebase seems not to be the right tool.

I wonder if i can solve this task using filter-branch? I have a file
that list the SHA1s for each squash operation per line. All SHA1s of
a line are in chronological order (youngest to oldest), or in other
words: the first SHA1 is the child of the second, and so on.

Use git-replace do construct a squashed commit that replaces the last
child in each run such that its parent points to the parent of the first
in the run. Then use a git-filter-branch without filters to burn the
parenthood into the history.

Using grafts (which are only about parentage, and are purely local) with filter-less git-filter-branch might be easier than git-replace.

If you have the following history:

    ... <--- O <--- A <--- B <--- C <--- ...

and you want to squash A, B, C into

    ... <--- O <----------------- C <--- ...

simply add the following to .git/info/grafts

   <sha-1 of C> <sha-1 of O>

for example with

   echo "$(git rev-parse C) $(git rev-parse C^^^)" >>.git/info/grafts

Check if the history is correct e.g. with "git log --graph --oneline",
then use filter-branch.

BTW. do you know if it is possible to run filter-branch without replacing replaces?


Just for completeness, yet another way to do scripted history rewriting is to use git-fast-export + some editing script (e.g. reposurgeon[1]) + git-fast-import.

[1]: http://www.catb.org/esr/reposurgeon/

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Jakub Narębski
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