When you amend the second commit replaces the results of the first. It's for the occasion when you commit too early and possibly forget to add some files, or you mess up your commit message.
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Thiago Rossi <thiagorossi...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hello everybody! > > I am new to the list and this is my first topic. I am a developer who is > trying to make the best use of git with my projects. So far I've mainly > worked with local repositories. Only one of my projects has a remote > repository in our private server… I mean, I checkout a few projects every > now and then but they are “read only”… > > I have this small project and I like to keep my git repositories as clean > as possible. Also I try to play with git so I can learn basic and advanced > stuff. > > Yesterday I needed to amend a commit. As far as I know, git created a new > commit with the same parent as my current one. So, let's say I had: > A <--- B <--- C <-- D > After I run git commit --amend: > A <-- B <-- C <-- E > > If I use git log, I don't see any reference to D anymore. I know its > hash, and I know it's out there because it's listed if I use git reflogor git > checkout <D-hash> I am able to see it and check it out. If I try to use > rebase this commit is not listed anywhere either. > > My question is: is there any way to make D appears in the rebase or even > log? Why it doesn't show anywhere? I think it's been references somewhere > because if I run git fsck --unreachable or git prune -n -v no “lost” > objects are shown. > > I am just trying to understand how git works behind the scenes and this > got me a bit confused. I head git would discard commits that are no longer > referenced (such as D?!) but I couldn't undertand why it happened. I even > tried to merge the branch I was in and then delete the previous branch and > again, no “lost” objects are listed. (Aren't the branch tree and related > filed supposed to be unreachable or were they deleted for good? It seems > the list of objects haven't got smaller since I run git branch -d <branch> > . > > Thank you for your help! > > Thiago. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Git for human beings" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/git-users/-/5YpmpXV8SzgJ. > To post to this group, send email to git-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To post to this group, send email to git-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=en.
