Flatten old history in Git

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Published on 2010-12-22T06:37:05Z Indexed on 2010/12/22 6:54 UTC
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I have a git project that has run for a while and now I want to throw away the old history, say from start to two years back from now. With throw away I mean replace the many commits within this time with one single commit doing the same.

I checked "git rebase -i " but this does not remove the other (full) history containing all commits from git.

Here a graphical representation (d being the changesets):

(base) -> d1 -> d2 -> d3 -> (HEAD)

What I want is:

(base,d1,d2) -> d3 -> (HEAD)

How could this be done? Thanks.

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