git interactive rebase for svn without remotes
I’ve recently switched from using Subversion directly to using git svn to allow me to use a git workflow, but interact with a subversion repository. It works great, except when I needed to interactive rebase… When moving this workflow into my customer’s environment, they require I specify a JIRA ticket on each commit to the repo. I had forgot to do that for the first few commits, which looked like this:$ git log --oneline
6fa0719 Fixing the handlebars template to render the target as parent.
21ad0cf Initial commit of the SiteSuggestions app
6430b3b Adding the .gitignore files
095d92e SP-34: Creating branch to track the new suggestions app part.
So, when I tried to commit, I got an error indicating that the commit failed. In looking at the error, I saw the pre-commit hook error requiring that I associate the commit with a JIRA ticket. So, my first comment was easy to fix:$ git commit --amend -m "SP-34: Fixing the handlebars template to render the target as parent."
[2013-sitesuggestions-svn 6b4bc64] SP-34: Fixing the handlebars template to render the target as parent."
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Now I just had to figure out how to modify commits 21ad0cf and 6430b3b. I tried to use git interactive rebase as per the git svn tutorial and per the git-scm book. However, in both cases, I got the following error message:$ git rebase -i HEAD-3
fatal: Needed a single revision
invalid branch HEAD-3
The solution was to specify the SHA for the commit:$ git rebase -i 6430b3b^
This started the rebase process and allowed me to amend the commits for every faulted commit. Now, everything looks correct:$ git log --oneline
6fa0719 SP-34: Fixing the handlebars template to render the target as parent.
21ad0cf SP-34: Initial commit of the SiteSuggestions app
6430b3b SP-34: Adding the .gitignore files
095d92e SP-34: Creating branch to track the new suggestions app part.
When I finally committed using git svn dcommit, everything went perfectly!
