Amended very first commit added more commits

Question

I wanted to remove a file from my very first initial commit:

git rebase -i --root

set the first commit to edit

git rm *filename
git commit --amend
git rebase --continue

Now I have a new commit that consists of the history of commits (which successfully removed the file I wanted from initial commit), but previous commits also remain. So there are duplicate commits now. My question is how to only want to keep my most current commit.

Answer 1

Looks like something is still referencing them. It may be because you have other branches, which are still pointing to some of the old commits .Run git log --all --graph to see what it is.

You can then reset your branches to their new, rebased commits by doing git checkout <other_branch> , then git reset --hard <new_rebased_commit> .

Once you're done, you may want to delete the old commits by running git gc --prune=all . If you don't do that, they can still be found, for example, by using git reflog