Chapter 6. Rewriting history and disaster recovery
This chapter covers
- Viewing the history of all changes made to branches over time
- Making a branch point to a previous commit
- Changing the parent of commits to point to another
- Forcing push-rewritten history to a remote repository
- Rewriting the entire history of a branch
- Avoiding losing your work
Technique 4 briefly discussed that Git is capable of rewriting the history of a repository. Because each repository contains the entire history, this ranges from undoing a single commit to rewriting data on every commit in the repository. I make use of rewriting history regularly to ensure that merged branches have a clean, readable history made up of small commits before merging. You can read ...
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