Each time you are working on a bug or a feature, you create a branch for it.
Usually, while working in such temporary branches, you make multiply commits without bothering a lot about commit messages and simply comment the changes with something like “work in progress” or just “WIP”.
Before merging such branch into master it is a good practice to squash all commits in one with a single commit message that describes the summary of the changes.
Below i will show you how to squash commits in Git before merging a branch into master.
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Squash and Merge Commits in Git
Run the following Git commands to squash all commits in a branch into one and merge this branch into master with a single commit message:
$ git checkout master $ git merge --squash <branch_name> $ git commit
If you are working with a remote Git repository, don’t forget to push your changes:
$ git push
Squash Commits in Git Branch
Alternatively you can squash all commits in a branch as follows:
$ git checkout <branch_name> $ git reset --soft master $ git add -A $ git commit
In this case you may need to force the push of the branch to remote:
$ git push -f
Otherwise you may get the next error:
error: failed to push some refs to ‘https://path/to/repo.git’
hint: Updates were rejected because the tip of your current branch is behind
hint: its remote counterpart. Integrate the remote changes (e.g.
hint: ‘git pull …’) before pushing again.
hint: See the ‘Note about fast-forwards’ in ‘git push –help’ for details.