Undo Git Commit

Chris Barnes — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 12:00:00 +0000

I just made a commit to a public project and pushed the changes up to github. Then I realized that I left some confidential information in one of the files. Searching online lead to a couple of different ways to fix this (git rebase, and git filter-branch), neither of which were working well for me.

I finally figured out that doing the following would work as long as the confidential information were only included in the last commit.

First update the file and remove the confidential info.

git add my-file-with-confidential-info

git commit --amend
(this will add what's in your current staging area to the last commit)

git push origin +master
(force push your changes to github)

Hope this helps someone else.

Installing git on linux

Chris Barnes — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:32:00 +0000

Trying to install git from source on our linux server (we're running RHEL4 at work) and I was getting an error running make.

undefined reference to `libiconv'

Running make like this worked.

make install CFLAGS="-liconv"

But after the install was finished, running git barfed at me about loading a shared library libiconv.so.2.

I had to edit /etc/ld.so.conf and add /usr/local/lib and run ldconfig.

Credit Mark Turner for the ldconfig tip. Thanks man.

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Undo Git Commit

Installing git on linux