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@@ -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 ;)
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