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Subject: Re: Lump commit HOWTO?
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Josh Boyer, Fri, Jul 13, 2007 03:21:17 +0200:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have a specific workflow in mind that I'm not entirely sure how to
> accomplish with git.  What I'd like to do is track a project in a
> local branch, and do commits of my own there as well.  Then when I'm
> ready to submit the work, I want to take all the incremental commits
> and lump them into a single new commit and push that out as a patch or
> into a branch for people to pull from.

See git merge --squash. It is exactly that.
Also git-rebase --interactive and git cherry-pick -n can help you to
get the same.