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git, Programming

IT Nursery

Remove refs/original/heads/master from git repo after filter-branch –tree-filter?

I had the same question as asked here: New git repository in root directory to subsume an exist repository in a sub-directory I ...

June 1, 2022
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git, Programming

IT Nursery

How to amend older Git commit? [duplicate]

This question already has answers here: How to modify a specified commit? (17 answers) Closed 7 years ago. I have made 3 git ...

May 28, 2022
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git, Programming

IT Nursery

Combine the first two commits of a Git repository?

Suppose you have a history containing the three commits A, B and C: A-B-C I would like to combine the two commits A ...

May 27, 2022
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Rebasing a Git merge commit

Take the following case: I have some work in a topic branch and now I’m ready to merge back to master: * eb3b733 ...

May 25, 2022
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How to amend several commits in Git to change author

I have made a series of commits in Git and I realise now that I forgot to set my user name and user ...

May 21, 2022
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Edit the root commit in Git?

There’s ways to change the message from later commits: git commit --amend # for the most recent commit git rebase --interactive master~2 # ...

May 9, 2022
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How do you fix a bad merge, and replay your good commits onto a fixed merge?

I accidentally committed an unwanted file (filename.orig while resolving a merge) to my repository several commits ago, without me noticing it until now. ...

May 7, 2022
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Remove sensitive files and their commits from Git history

I would like to put a Git project on GitHub but it contains certain files with sensitive data (usernames and passwords, like /config/deploy.rb ...

May 5, 2022
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How to squash all git commits into one?

How do you squash your entire repository down to the first commit? I can rebase to the first commit, but that would leave ...

April 29, 2022
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How to remove/delete a large file from commit history in the Git repository?

I accidentally dropped a DVD-rip into a website project, then carelessly git commit -a -m ..., and, zap, the repo was bloated by ...

April 17, 2022
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