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Discard commits but keep the files

published on January 31, 2020.

As I was working on a feature today, I realized I went down a wrong path on how the code should look like. I did end up with something I do like, just the history up until this point was pretty messy.

I want the current state to be a new starting point. One way I could do this is by creating a new branch, copy paste the files over from the old branch into the new branch and start committing away piece by piece.

Turns out, git reset HEAD^ does what I want it to do — it “uncommits”. It removes the last commit from HEAD but leaves the files intact.

What I did was squashed all of the “bad” commits I had into a single commit with interactive rebase:

git rebase -i HEAD~11

and then did the “uncommit”:

git reset HEAD^

Now all my files are here in the state I want them, without any of the commits in the history.

This is probably not my greatest moment in git history, but it does what I want it to do.

Happy hackin’!

Tags: git, reset, uncommit, rebase.
Categories: Development.
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