How to truncate git history by Git Extension

After a year working with project Legend, our team created about 1400 commits. However I don’t think anyone need to view the commit history of six or twelve months ago, so I would like to truncate too old commits.

If you love command line, you can use following awesome git commands:

 git checkout --orphan temp $1
 git commit -m "Truncated history"
 git rebase --onto temp $1 master
 git branch -D temp
 git gc

I’m a fan of GIT extension so I try converting those commands to Git Extension actions:

1. Open your git directory with Git extension

 

2. Create a temp branch at the last commit you would like to truncate

3. Reset MIX to the root commit

 

 

4. Amend commit with new message “Truncate 3 commits”

5. Check out master, rebase on temp

6. Enjoy the result, your old commit has been truncated