Re: reverting initial commit

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Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Actually, rebase --interactive cannot be used to amend the first commit.
> This is something that has hit me a couple of times when I realised, after
> the second or third commit, that I needed to fix the first one. I found
> the fastest way in this case to be to just format-patch all but the first
> commit, reset --hard to the first commit, amend, and git am what I format-
> patched.
> 
> I wish there was a way to tell rebase -i to go back to the first commit,
> inclusive, but the two or three times I've tried hacking at it I never
> managed to come to anything useful 8-/

I like to be able to rebase -i back to the first commit as well,
which is why I generally start off with:

git init && git commit --allow-empty -m'initial commit'

- Eric

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