How to remove commits from a pull request

Question

I did a pull request but after that I made some commits to the project locally which ended polluting my pull request, I tried to remove it but without any luck.

I found some similar questions on StackOverflow but I can't apply what's in there. It's my first pull request on GitHub so it's kinda strange to me how all of this works.

The highlighted commit is the one I need to keep and remove all the other stuff. It becomes the fourth commit in the history because I make some merge stuff.

my git log

Can someone please explain what's going on and how to fix this problem?

Answer 1

People wouldn't like to see a wrong commit and a revert commit to undo changes of the wrong commit. This pollutes commit history.

Here is a simple way for removing the wrong commit instead of undoing changes with a revert commit.

1. git checkout my-pull-request-branch

2. git rebase -i HEAD~n // where n is the number of last commits you want to include in interactive rebase.

3. Replace pick with drop for commits you want to discard.
4. Save and exit.
5. git push --force