Question

I have local commit that are not on any branch that I would like to delete.
I don’t want to rebase them, I really want to delete them, and loose all the content related to these commit.

Is their a command to do so ?

So far I’ve tried interactive rebase as many suggested, but it just move commit around, it doesn’t delete them. I’ve also tried to use reflog delete, but I can’t figure out how to pass a specific commit Id to the command.

Here’s the working tree:

o [master] Commit #6  
|  
o Commit #5  
|  
| o Commit #4  
|/  
o Commit #3  
|  
o Commit #2  
|  
o Commit #1  

I want to physically delete the commit #4.

Answer 1

If the commit is not referenced by anything, it will be removed with git’s garbage collection, in time.

If you want to force it before hand, use git gc --prune=now --aggressive