Re: squash commits deep down in history

Am 23.10.2014 um 14:34 schrieb Henning Moll:

i need to squash several commits into a single one in a automated
way. I know that there is interactive rebase, which can also be
automated using GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR. Unfortunately my history is very
large and i need to squash deep down in the history several times. So
using interactive rebase seems not to be the right tool.

I wonder if i can solve this task using filter-branch? I have a file
that list the SHA1s for each squash operation per line. All SHA1s of
a line are in chronological order (youngest to oldest), or in other
words: the first SHA1 is the child of the second, and so on.

Use git-replace do construct a squashed commit that replaces the last
child in each run such that its parent points to the parent of the first
in the run. Then use a git-filterbranch without filters to burn the
parenthood into the history.

-- Hannes