How can I combine two commits into one commit

Question

I have a branch  firstproject  with 2 commits  I want to get rid of these commits and make them appear as a single commit    The command git merge --squash sounds promising  but when I run git merge --squash my terminal just brings up options for the command  What is the correct command    Commit 1  Added  homepage html  Added  contacts html   Commit 2  Added  homepage php  Added  homepage php  Deleted  homepage html  Deleted  contacts html

User · Accepted Answer

You want to git rebase -i to perform an interactive rebase   If you re currently on your  commit 1   and the commit you want to merge   commit 2   is the previous commit  you can run git rebase -i HEAD 2  which will spawn an editor listing all the commits the rebase will traverse  You should see two lines starting with  pick   To proceed with squashing  change the first word of the second line from  pick  to  squash   Then save your file  and quit  Git will squash your first commit into your second last commit   Note that this process rewrites the history of your branch  If you are pushing your code somewhere  you ll have to git push -f and anybody sharing your code will have to jump through some hoops to pull your changes   Note that if the two commits in question aren t the last two commits on the branch  the process will be slightly different

User · Answer

Lazy simple version for forgetfuls like me   git rebase -i HEAD 3 or however many commits instead of 3   Turn this  pick YourCommitMessageWhatever pick YouGetThePoint pick IdkManItsACommitMessage   into this  pick YourCommitMessageWhatever s YouGetThePoint s IdkManItsACommitMessage   and do some action where you hit esc then enter to save the changes   1   When the next screen comes up  get rid of those garbage   lines  2  and create a new commit message or something  and do the same escape enter action   1   Wowee  you have fewer commits  Or you just broke everything      1  - or whatever works with your git configuration  This is just a sequence that s efficient given my setup    2  - you ll see some stuff like   this is your n th commit a few times  with your original commits right below these message  You want to remove these lines  and create a commit message to reflect the intentions of the n commits that you re combining into 1

User · Answer

Checkout your branch and count quantity of all your commits  Open git bash and write  git rebase -i HEAD  lt quantity of your commits gt   i e  git rebase -i HEAD 5  In opened txt file change pick keyword to squash for all commits  except first commit  which is on the top   For top one change it to reword  which means you will provide a new comment for this commit in the next step  and click SAVE  If in vim  press esc then save by entering wq  and press enter  Provide Comment  Open Git and make  Fetch all  to see new changes    Done

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