I am curious about how to remove the first commit in git.
What is the revision before committing any thing? Does this revision have a name or tag?
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I am curious about how to remove the first commit in git.
What is the revision before committing any thing? Does this revision have a name or tag?
Best Answer
For me, the most secure way is to use the
update-ref
command:It will delete the named reference
HEAD
, so it will reset (softly, you will not lose your work) ALL your commits of your current branch.If what you want is to merge the first commit with the second one, you can use the
rebase
command:A last way could be to create an orphan branch, a branch with the same content but without any commit history, and commit your new content on it: