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On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 21:28, jhapk <pradeep.kumar.jha@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a git history which looks something like as in the figure above. I
> want to merge Branch A in Branch B. However, the commits a1, a2 and a3 are
> ugly and so I don't want those commits in my Branch B log. Is there anyway
> that I can only pull the final form of Branch A without pulling the whole
> history of Branch A?

Yes, you use rebase to squash or drop those commits, and then merge the branch.