Remove old git commits

Question

I\'m very new to git, and was wondering if something like this is possible?

>git log --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit
2f05aba Added new feature
3371cec Fi         


        

Answer 1

To completely delete commit(s) there is a new option drop for git interactive rebases now. First run:

git rebase -i HEAD~4

Then replace pick with drop for the commit(s) to be dropped:

pick 2f05aba ... #will be preserved
drop 3371cec ... #will be dropped
drop daed25c ... #will be dropped
pick e2b2a84 ... #will be preserved

This worked on Fedora for me with the following version:

$ git version
git version 2.21.0