delete first git commit

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I made a mistake when I first committed. I'm on another person's computer and pushed a version with their user.name instead of mine. How can I delete this?

See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/750172/how-do-i-change-the-author-of-a-commit-in-git, but that involves history rewriting. — VonC, Aug 07 '10 at 15:32
Deleting (or changing the author of) a commit that is the ancestor of other commits is inherently rewriting history. — David Winslow, Aug 08 '10 at 00:19

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 07 '10 at 17:28

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You can just force-push a repository containing the initial commit you want to Github using git push --force.

answered Aug 07 '10 at 17:28

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Great answer, did it in my case. – Sander Mar 01 '16 at 14:57

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:01

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There are a lot of duplicate questions related to this. The following is a generic solution for replacing the first commit of your tree. After you perform this step, you can make any other changes using git rebase -i.

Insert a commit before the root commit in Git?

edited May 23 '17 at 12:01

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answered Aug 09 '10 at 23:59

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