From: Matej Dujava <mdujava@kocurkovo.cz>
To: The Super Techie <thesupertechie1@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Add a git squash function?
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2026 23:52:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aoIxALomheh-3N44@kocurkovo.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bc49c03e-5a90-480e-8bfa-ad8fb8e42db2@gmail.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-16 21:58 UTC|newest]
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2026-08-16 18:49 Add a git squash function? The Super Techie
2026-08-16 21:52 ` Matej Dujava [this message]
2026-08-16 23:38 ` Bradley Morgan
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