On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 02:38:24AM +0100, Rene Herman wrote: > If you do really want to redo patches that are further down even within a > single topic, git doesn't provide much added value over any other system I > believe, but I suspect that you just have lots of unrelated stuff and > haven't been making extensive use of branching? A) Edit non-HEAD patch (e.g 5th patch from the top): git checkout -b tmp HEAD~5 git reset HEAD^ $EDIT file.c git commit -a -c ORIG_HEAD git rebase --onto tmp master~5 master git branch -D tmp (you can try to write a script if you need it really often) B) Remove non-HEAD patch: git checkout -f -b tmp badcommit^ git rebase --onto badcommit yourbranch git branch -d tmp --- my git-rmcommit script ---- #!/bin/bash CID="$1" if [ -z "$CID" ]; then echo "Usage: $0 <commit>" exit 1 fi MYBRANCH=$(git branch | gawk '/^\* / { print $2 }') TMPBRANCH="tmp.$$" echo "Removing commit $CID from $MYBRANCH..." echo git checkout -f -b "$TMPBRANCH" "$CID"^ git rebase --onto "$TMPBRANCH" "$CID" "$MYBRANCH" git branch -d "$TMPBRANCH" echo "done." -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ