I'm new to git and github, I read the "10 tips" posted earlier, and I dont understand the last one: Avoid thrashing.

The story says, "Instead, remove the offending commits, and force push your modified branch".

How would one do that?  Is there doc's around that might explain that in a little more detail?

Thanks,

-Andy

"AndyC"  wrote in message news:afvimfdmrfevmcjuuyxq@forum.dlang.org...

> I'm new to git and github, I read the "10 tips" posted earlier, and I dont understand the last one: Avoid thrashing.
>
> The story says, "Instead, remove the offending commits, and force push your modified branch".
>
> How would one do that?  Is there doc's around that might explain that in a little more detail?

Usually it's done with git's interactive rebase.  You can easily reorder and combine commits, so if eg part of an earlier commit was reverted the original and the revert commit can be combined.  Searching for "interactive rebase" will get you lots of tutorials. 

On Friday, 23 January 2015 at 03:33:22 UTC, Daniel Murphy wrote:
> "AndyC"  wrote in message news:afvimfdmrfevmcjuuyxq@forum.dlang.org...
>
>> I'm new to git and github, I read the "10 tips" posted earlier, and I dont understand the last one: Avoid thrashing.
>>
>> The story says, "Instead, remove the offending commits, and force push your modified branch".
>>
>> How would one do that?  Is there doc's around that might explain that in a little more detail?
>
> Usually it's done with git's interactive rebase.  You can easily reorder and combine commits, so if eg part of an earlier commit was reverted the original and the revert commit can be combined.  Searching for "interactive rebase" will get you lots of tutorials.

Ah, thank you.  I found this one pretty descriptive:
http://robots.thoughtbot.com/git-interactive-rebase-squash-amend-rewriting-history

-Andy