Query on git usage for creating patch with incremental commits

[Bjørn Mork]

Kumar Amit Mehta <gmate.amit at gmail.com> writes:

> So far so good, but what If, I am not particularly proud of the first
> patch, but have to send that anyway, If my patches are to be applied.
> Another approach would be to create another branch, say development-again,
> based of origin/master and make the necessary changes and then just
> create one patch file. But I was wondering that while doing development,
> don't we make commits in our working branches, which we think is
> correct, only to find it ridiculous later (say after few more commits
> in future) ? And what to do in such scenario ? Or how to use git to
> solve such scenario.

git rebase is made for things like this.  See
http://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Rewriting-History



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