Add a git squash function?

Add a git squash function?

[The Super Techie]

Hi,

I am a developer who often squashes their commits using Git. Currently, 
the simplest way to squash is to run the following two commands:

git reset --soft HEAD~3

git commit

Where 3 is the number of commits that a user would like to squash. 
However, what if there was a command like as follows:

git squash 3

Which did the same thing? This would save quite a bit of time for 
developers. Since some projects require the DCO, an -s flag could be 
added which would add a sign-off to the squashed commit as well.

Has this been suggested before?

~thesupertechie

Re: Add a git squash function?

[Matej Dujava]

On Sun, Aug 16, 2026 at 11:49:50AM -0700, The Super Techie wrote:
>Hi,

Hi,

>
>I am a developer who often squashes their commits using Git. 
>Currently, the simplest way to squash is to run the following two 
>commands:
>
>git reset --soft HEAD~3
>
>git commit
>
>Where 3 is the number of commits that a user would like to squash. 
>However, what if there was a command like as follows:
>
>Which did the same thing? This would save quite a bit of time for 
>developers. Since some projects require the DCO, an -s flag could be 
>added which would add a sign-off to the squashed commit as well.

when later commits are adressing feedback you can do fixup! or squash!
commits and then cleanup before merge: `git rebase --autosquash HEAD~3`

>
>Has this been suggested before?

Looks like there is a v13 [0] patchset discussing similar worflow, which
started as [1].

>
>git squash 3

suggested command was `git history squash HEAD~3` but this will keep
message of the fist commit


[0] https://lore.kernel.org/git/pull.2337.v13.git.git.1786088371.gitgitgadget@gmail.com/
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/pull.2337.git.git.1781465141.gitgitgadget@gmail.com/

Thanks,
Matej

Re: Add a git squash function?

[Bradley Morgan]

Hi,

Yes, absolutely yes a squash function would be useful, anyone developing
it, please do.

I get annoyed with rebase headaches.

Thanks!