Gitlab删除旧提交

Question

I have cloned a repo from gitlab. Without removing the .git folder i have worked and edited the cloned project and done certain commits.Now my gitlab has old commits as well as my commits .Is there any way to remove old commits and maintain my commits only.?Thanks

Answer 1

What you can do is create a new empty repo, and import in it only your new commits from your current (mixted) repo.

cd /another/local/path/aNewFolder
git init .
git remote add mixtedRepo /path/to/mixted/repo
git fetch mixtedRepo

So far, your new repo is empty, and there is a mixtedRepo/master remote branch in it (with old and new commits).

Let's make sure you have a local master branch first:

git commit --allow-empty -m "master branch"

Then, let's rebase on your lone empty commit the commits you did in your old repo:

git rebase --onto master <your First New Commit SHA1> mixtedRepo/master

Finally, let's push that to a new remote GitLab repo:

git remote add origin /url/new/empty/GitLab/repo
git push -u origin master