I’m new to git and I’m trying to understand the difference between a squash and a rebase. As I understand it you perform a squash when doing a rebase. 4 s 4 Merge commits: retains all of the commits in your branch and interleaves them with commits on the base branch Merge Squash: retains the … Read more
This question already has answers here: Combine the first two commits of a Git repository? (8 answers) Closed 7 years ago. With git rebase –interactive <commit> you can squash any number of commits together into a single one. That’s all great unless you want to squash commits into the initial commit. That seems impossible to … Read more
How do you squash your entire repository down to the first commit? I can rebase to the first commit, but that would leave me with 2 commits. Is there a way to reference the commit before the first one? 20 s 20 As of git 1.6.2, you can use git rebase –root -i. For each … Read more
This gives a good explanation of squashing multiple commits: http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Branching-Rebasing but it does not work for commits that have already been pushed. How do I squash the most recent few commits both in my local and remote repos? When I do git rebase -i origin/master~4 master, keep the first one as pick, set the other … Read more
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