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diff --git a/Documentation/howto/rebase-and-edit.txt b/Documentation/howto/rebase-and-edit.txt index 646c55cc69..554909fe08 100644 --- a/Documentation/howto/rebase-and-edit.txt +++ b/Documentation/howto/rebase-and-edit.txt @@ -9,16 +9,16 @@ Abstract: In this article, Linus demonstrates how a broken commit On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: -> That's correct. Same things apply: you can move a patch over, and create a -> new one with a modified comment, but basically the _old_ commit will be +> That's correct. Same things apply: you can move a patch over, and create a +> new one with a modified comment, but basically the _old_ commit will be > immutable. Let me clarify. You can entirely _drop_ old branches, so commits may be immutable, but -nothing forces you to keep them. Of course, when you drop a commit, you'll -always end up dropping all the commits that depended on it, and if you -actually got somebody else to pull that commit you can't drop it from +nothing forces you to keep them. Of course, when you drop a commit, you'll +always end up dropping all the commits that depended on it, and if you +actually got somebody else to pull that commit you can't drop it from _their_ repository, but undoing things is not impossible. For example, let's say that you've made a mess of things: you've committed @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ want to save "b" and "c". What you can do is # for reference git branch broken - # Reset the main branch to three parents back: this + # Reset the main branch to three parents back: this # effectively undoes the three top commits git reset HEAD^^^ git checkout -f @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ Finally, check out the end result again: to see that everything looks sensible. -And then, you can just remove the broken branch if you decide you really +And then, you can just remove the broken branch if you decide you really don't want it: # remove 'broken' branch @@ -68,8 +68,8 @@ don't want it: # Prune old objects if you're really really sure git prune -And yeah, I'm sure there are other ways of doing this. And as usual, the -above is totally untested, and I just wrote it down in this email, so if +And yeah, I'm sure there are other ways of doing this. And as usual, the +above is totally untested, and I just wrote it down in this email, so if I've done something wrong, you'll have to figure it out on your own ;) Linus @@ -77,5 +77,3 @@ I've done something wrong, you'll have to figure it out on your own ;) To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - - |