Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] GIT tutorials (was: Re: Fix bug in GSM MAP, have problems with GIT)

[Evan Huus <eapache@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 4:47 PM, Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Mar 11, 2014, at 1:35 PM, Evan Huus <eapache@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Not technically true. If I make a commit with SHA x, push it, and it
>> gets submitted, then it is true that the final SHA in master will be y
>> != x. However, the next time I pull then I will get SHA y as well.
>> They x and y technically reference different commits, since y contains
>> additional information about who reviewed it, when it was submitted
>> from Gerrit, etc.
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> And if you use the Git Swiss Army Sledgehammer, a/k/a "git rebase", you can get rid of the commit with SHA x or, at least, not have it clutter your logs (as well as getting rid of all those silly merges Git forces you to do in some cases).  That's one reason why the "git rebase" in my "git update" script:
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>         git stash; git pull; git rebase; git stash pop
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> is handy.

Or if you do development in branches as is fairly common, you can just
delete the old branch.