Another solid reason to delete a Git commit is to keep your project history clean and simple. As you work on the project, your commit history becomes ever more cluttered with minor updates, experiments, or changes that are no longer relevant. When you want to look through history for any r...
Deleting & Undoing Commits in Tower In case you are using theTower Git client, not only "reset" and "revert" are easily accessible. Tower also allows you to access advanced tools like "interactive rebase" very easily, for example to delete a commit (and if you made a mistake, you canun...
In those times what I want to do is make a patch with the changes of the commit, delete the commit, apply the patch and then redo the commit only with the changes I intended. In this post I will only explain how to delete a commit in your local repository and in a remote repository...
Lastly, if you need to find a commit that you "deleted", it is typically present ingit reflogunless you have garbage collected your repository.
The argumentHEAD~1will delete one commit. We can use anN-thargument, as shown below. gitreset --hard HEAD~N If you want to delete the last five commits in your repository, replaceNwith your value. We can delete a specific commit with the command below. ...
Run the “touch” command and create a new file in the local repository: $touchfile1.txt Step 3: Add File to Staging Area Next, add the newly created file into the staging area using the following command: $git addfile1.txt Step 4: Commit Changes ...
gitreset--hardHEAD~3 This command will remove thelatest three commits. You can also remove up to a specific commit using a commit’s hash, like so: gitreset--hard<hash> 1.2 For non-consecutive commits If, however you want to remove non-consecutive commits, you’ll need to use an inter...
In Git, the commits are not actually deleted when we delete a branch, and the commit history also remains intact. When we delete a base branch, what will happen depends on the type of branch, which gives rise to two types of scenarios, as discussed in this section. ...
$ git branch -d <local-branch> In some cases, Git might refuse to delete your local branch: when it contains commits that haven't been merged into any other local branches or pushed to a remote repository. This is a very sensible rule that protects you from inadvertently losing commit dat...
For example, to delete a Git tag in the local repo named beta: git tag -d beta To delete the Git tag from the CodeCommit repository, run the git push remote-name --delete tag-name command where remote-name is the nickname the local repo uses for the CodeCommit repository and tag-name...