On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Roy Stogner <royst...@ices.utexas.edu> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 8 Apr 2013, Derek Gaston wrote:
>
>> You can just delete those merge commits.  I would just do a "git rebase
>> HEAD~4"  (where 4 is 1
>> beyond the number of commits you want to edit..
>
>
> So for libmesh/roystgnr/master in place of "4" I would put... what?  I
> think my first merge commit was Dec. 13, something like 500 commits
> ago...  plus, some of those may have slipped back into
> libMesh/libmesh/master, in which case I presumably *wouldn't* want to
> delete them in my local copy.

roystgnr/master doesn't look to be that old (at least judging by the
network graph) it seems to branch from bcb7ede, which was around April
3rd?  Maybe I'm looking at the wrong thing.


> "wipe and restore from scratch" is sounding better and better, but I'm
> not even certain how to do that.

If that's what you really want to do:

git br -D <branchName>
git push origin --delete <branchName>

(assuming your version of git is relatively new, otherwise the second
one uses the "colon" notation "git push origin :<branchName>")

--
John

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