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Re:High-Level Problems with Git and How to Fix Them by fuhrysteve on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @09:04AM (#15905605)
> If you screw up a rebase, the old commits are still there with the same hash they always had.

Disclaimer, if you're compelled for none other than neurotic reasons to run `git gc` periodically like me, these old commits will get thrown out. I found this out the hard way :(

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Re:High-Level Problems with Git and How to Fix Them by tokenizerrr on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @12:36PM (#15907550)
Yeah, don't do that
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