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RafaelGP
RafaelGP

Reputation: 1889

How to remove a commit

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I would like to delete the commit 9dfd73, the one highlighted. As you can see it's not a branch. It's the result of a detached head.

I tried to make a branch on it and then delete that branch using git branch -D 9dfd73, but that deleted the branch, leaving the commit.

Any ideas?

UPDATE:

For some reason, that commit doesn't exit in my tree any more, and I didn't have the chance to try your solution.

But I'll mark it as the correct answer if you can explain what does that command really does :-)

git rebase --onto <9dfd73>^ <9dfd73> HEAD

I understand it's something like: "take all the commits between the commit 9dfd73 and HEAD (excluding HEAD itself) and put them on top of the commit 9dfd73"

But I don't understand the ^ symbol.

Also, I'm not sure if the ID should be the same. Could you explain further?

Thank you

Upvotes: 1

Views: 196

Answers (3)

GoZoner
GoZoner

Reputation: 70235

If you insist on getting rid of it/them now, follow these instructions. But, dont' worry about it; it will eventually disappear on their own.

Upvotes: 0

Fran&#231;ois
Fran&#231;ois

Reputation: 8138

You should try the file > reload menu in gitk (ctrl-F5). This will probably make your commit disappear, since it is not the current commit anymore and it is not on any branch.

Upvotes: 1

Abimaran Kugathasan
Abimaran Kugathasan

Reputation: 32488

Use the following command, 

git rebase --onto <commit-id>^ <commit-id> HEAD

commit-id will be your SHA-1 id

Upvotes: 1

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