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Christian Wolf
Christian Wolf

Reputation: 1237

How to remove unneeded git commits?

I have some garbage commits in my git repositry. These have been created by e.g. the git gui when changing the latest commit again and accidently creating additional commits.

Now I have some commits lying around with no HEAD assigned (detached, not part of any branch).

As I want to tidy up, my question is: How can I delete these commits (see F, G and H)? Is this done using rebase or revert or reset? Or using another tool? On which commit do I have to sit to do it?

A -- B -- C -- D -- E [master]
      \-- F -- G
           \-- H

Thanks

Christian

Upvotes: 12

Views: 8489

Answers (3)

Jorge Galvão
Jorge Galvão

Reputation: 1893

git reflog expire --expire=now --all
git gc --prune=now

Note: I know this is written in the comments of the most voted answer, but I keep finding myself coming back to this question and not immediately finding the answer that works. The --all option is the only thing that is missing from the most voted answer, but is what makes it work for me.

Upvotes: 4

manojlds
manojlds

Reputation: 301477

Do the below:

git config gc.reflogexpireUnreachable now
git gc --prune=now
git config --unset gc.reflogexpireUnreachable

Upvotes: 6

cdhowie
cdhowie

Reputation: 169328

Try this:

git reflog expire --expire=now
git gc --prune=now

Upvotes: 17

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