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This sounds to me like someone had a problem once and they've decided upon a somewhat silly way to keep that from ever happening again. The big repository hosts have a different way of addressing ...
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#2: Post edited
by
Michael
·
2023-11-08T15:57:53Z (about 1 year ago)
No floating "they"
- This sounds to me like someone had a problem once and they've decided upon a somewhat silly way to keep that from ever happening again.
The big repository hosts have a different way of addressing it. They (offer to) make you a _README<span>.</span>md_ and a _.gitignore_ for the first commit and you can rebase everything but that.- > 2. You can’t `git reset` back to that initial state.
- If you _really_ want to reset back to literally nothing, just start a new repository.
- > 3. You can’t rebase the initial commit.
And then they show the command you use to do it:- ```sh
- git rebase --interactive --root
- ```
- This sounds to me like someone had a problem once and they've decided upon a somewhat silly way to keep that from ever happening again.
- The big repository hosts have a different way of addressing it. They (offer to) make you a _README<span>.</span>md_ and a _.gitignore_ for the first commit and you can stem everything from that.
- > 2. You can’t `git reset` back to that initial state.
- If you _really_ want to reset back to literally nothing, just start a new repository.
- > 3. You can’t rebase the initial commit.
- The author asserts point 3, but then they immediately show the command you can use to do it:
- ```sh
- git rebase --interactive --root
- ```
#1: Initial revision
by
Michael
·
2023-11-08T14:56:06Z (about 1 year ago)
This sounds to me like someone had a problem once and they've decided upon a somewhat silly way to keep that from ever happening again. The big repository hosts have a different way of addressing it. They (offer to) make you a _README<span>.</span>md_ and a _.gitignore_ for the first commit and you can rebase everything but that. > 2. You can’t `git reset` back to that initial state. If you _really_ want to reset back to literally nothing, just start a new repository. > 3. You can’t rebase the initial commit. And then they show the command you use to do it: ```sh git rebase --interactive --root ```