如何完全删除大量的git commit？

Question

I have a repo that looks like this:

A--B--C------F--G   H--I--J--K---------O--P
       \    /                 \       /
        D--E                   L--M--N

I want to eliminate commits A..G. I don't care about expunging specific files or folders, I don't want to revert my commits, I want those commits to be gone from history. I've tried various incantations of filter-branches and rebase but I can't seem to get git to do what I want.

Answer 1

you can do interactive rebase ( rebase -i ) and squash ( s in the interactive commit session) and then push -f to rewrite history.

Note that it will break this repository for everyone else who has this repo cloned. They will have to re-clone, potentially losing their work in progress. So it is kind of an anti-pattern.