Easy squashing for a bunch of commits

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# The easiest way to turn multiple commits in a feature branch into a single commit 
# is to reset the feature branch changes in the master and commit everything again.

# Switch to the master branch and make sure you are up to date.
git checkout master
git fetch # this may be necessary (depending on your git config) to receive updates on origin/master
git pull

# Merge the feature branch into the master branch.
git merge feature_branch

# Reset the master branch to origin's state.
git reset origin/master

# Git now considers all changes as unstaged changes.
# We can add these changes as one commit.
# Adding . will also add untracked files.
git add .
git add -u # The -u option also adds file deletions.
git commit