rebase

My Git repo has hundreds of gigabytes of data, say, database backups, so I'm trying to remove old, outdated backups, because they're making everything larger and slower. So I naturally need something that's fast; the faster, the better. How do I squash (or just plain remove) all commits except for the most recent ones, and do so without having to manually squash each one in an interactive rebase ? Specifically, I don't want to have to use git rebase -i --root For example, I have these commits: A .. B .. C ... ... H .. I .. J .. K .. L What I want is this (squashing everything in between A and

For some projects I do or work on sometimes it is usually best that we squash/rebase all changes into a single commit. However, I was wondering how this affects the contributions page on github. For example, if I spent 2 months pushing changes to a project I created and then after 2 months decided to rebase it to one single commit, would github remove all the contribution cubes on the map for the past two months? I saw this still here so I figured I might as well answer the question. So the answer is YES. It will remove the contributions from the graph. It won't do it right away because

When using git rebase --autostash , git automatically creates an "autostash" commit, and will re-apply it after a successful rebase. But in case the rebasing is aborted (e.g. by using :cq in Vim when it's an interactive rebase), the autostash-commit might end up as a dangling commit. Git 2.9.0 Git 2.10 (Q3 2016) should avoid that issue entirely. See commit 33ba9c6 (29 Jun 2016) by Patrick Steinhardt ( pks-t ) . (Merged by Junio C Hamano -- gitster -- in commit 5eb1e9f , 13 Jul 2016) rebase -i : restore autostash on abort When we abort an interactive rebase we do so by calling die_abort , which

After working for several weeks with a half dozen different branches and merges, on both my laptop and work and my desktop at home, my history has gotten a bit convoluted. For example, I just did a fetch, then merged master with origin/master. Now, when I do git show-branches, the output looks like this: ! [login] Changed domain name. ! [master] Merge remote branch 'origin/master' ! [migrate-1.9] Migrating to 1.9.1 on Heroku ! [rebase-master] Merge remote branch 'origin/master' ---- - - [master] Merge remote branch 'origin/master' + + [master^2] A bit of re-arranging and cleanup. - - [master^2

I have a need to rebase the group of DLL files that I install with my program, because it's a 32-bit program and the address space is just too fragmented right now. Also there is the problem of the entirety of the DLLs being demand-paged into RAM on a cold boot so that the loader can rebase them, due to base address conflicts with some DLLs. Some DLLs are ones we have compiled; others are from 3rd parties. What I would like to do is have a tool rebase a given set of DLLs so that the group of DLLs occupies a contiguous block of memory. This tool would then be run just prior to the compilation

Git allows certain commands to create or modify commits without opening the editor first, for example: git commit --amend --no-edit git commit --fixup=HEAD^ I have set rebase.autosquash to true , so that the todo list for an interactive rebase is automatically reordered. Is there a way to immediately perform the rebase, without opening the editor first, something like: git rebase -i --no-edit HEAD~3 TL;DR answer: GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR=: git rebase -i HEAD~3 You can't stop git rebase --interactive from running the "sequence editor" (that's the edit command on the "sequence file" containing the