Borrowed from wprig
Some applications that interact with git repos will provide a user interface for squashing. Refer to your application's document for more information.
If you're familiar with Terminal, you can do the following:
- Make sure your branch is up to date with the master branch.
- Run
git rebase -i master. - You should see a list of commits, each commit starting with the word "pick".
- Make sure the first commit says "pick" and change the rest from "pick" to "squash". -- This will squash each commit into the previous commit, which will continue until every commit is squashed into the first commit.
- Save and close the editor.
- It will give you the opportunity to change the commit message.
- Save and close the editor again.
- Then you have to force push the final, squashed commit:
git push --force-with-lease origin.
Squashing commits can be a tricky process but once you figure it out, it's really helpful and keeps our repo concise and clean.