👏 Squash all commits in your current branch into one
brew install kvendrik/osx/git-squash
git log
* 834c8e6 - (HEAD -> new-feature) Sets up build script (3 seconds ago) <Koen Vendrik>
* 590c3a5 - Sets up CI (5 seconds ago) <Koen Vendrik>
* 2b44299 - (master) adds template (42 minutes ago) <Koen Vendrik>
git squash "Sets up tooling"
[detached HEAD ea22831] Sets up tooling
Date: Sun Jun 21 14:52:18 2020 -0400
2 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 .ci.yml
create mode 100644 build.sh
Successfully rebased and updated refs/heads/new-feature.
git log
* ea22831 - (HEAD -> new-feature) Sets up tooling (12 seconds ago) <Koen Vendrik>
* 2b44299 - (master) adds template (42 minutes ago) <Koen Vendrik>
The goal here is to make cleaning up your branch commits even quicker. Please note though that git squash
is just a slightly quicker and unified way to execute these commands:
git squash
runsgit rebase -i --autostash your_base_branch
.git squash
automates changingpick
tosquash
and inserts your commit message so this workflow is reduced to a single command.git squash --reset
runsgit reset "$(git merge-base your_base_branch your_target_branch)"
.
Also note that there are other speedy ways of squashing commits that are build into Git itself like Git's --autosquash
option (which provides more control over what you're squashing) and git merge --squash
(which lets you automatically squash all commits together and merge).
Usage: git squash [--help|-h] [--backup=<branch_name>] [--backup] [--reset|-r] [--base=<base_branch>] <commit_message>
Arguments
commit_message The commit message to use when commiting the squashed commit
Flags
--base Branch that you eventually intend on merging into (default: master)
--backup|-b Back up the branch before squashing to '[target_branch]-backup'. --backup accepts a backup branch name.
--reset|-r Squashes without first updating the branch. By default we use a rebase which updates the branch before squashing.
--help|-h Print this help message