So you just committed 15 things to your git repository and now you want to push your changes. Oops, commit #2 added your password file. Or perhaps you misspelled words in the commit message. Now, being a git expert, you think to yourself, I’ll just create a temporary branch, cherry-pick the commits that are correct, re-commit correctly the incorrect commit, and then merge/push my temporary branch instead of this flawed branch I have. That all works fine, but luckily there is a much easier way to do it.
> git rebase -i
When you use ‘-i’ with rebase, you get an interactive edit screen that gives you an option for each commit _after_ the sha1 you enter. For each commit you can either delete the entry entirely or replace the word “pick” with “edit”. Deleting an entry causes that commit to lost. Editing a commit gives you the option to unstage some of the files, edit the commit message, or really, to do whatever you want to change it how you intended. If you edit, or the rebase has a conflict, after setting things how you like, just use rebase –continue to go on your way.
