Git: “Cannot 'squash' without a previous commit” error while rebase

Question

I have the following in the to-do text of git rebase -i HEAD~2:

pick 56bcce7 Closes #2774
pick e43ceba Lint.py: Replace deprecated link

# Rebase 68         


        

Answer 1

It will be best to just say in the interactive editor containing the commits, git always squash from bottom to top and one should leave a "pick" entry at the top to receive the squashes from below.