How to use git merge --squash?

Question

I have a remote Git server, here is the scenario which I want to perform:

• For each bug/feature I create a different Git branch

• I keep on com

Answer 1

Merge newFeature branch into master with a custom commit:

git merge --squash newFeature && git commit -m 'Your custom commit message';

If instead, you do

git merge --squash newFeature && git commit

you will get a commit message that will include all the newFeature branch commits, which you can customize.

I explain it thoroughly here: https://youtu.be/FQNAIacelT4

Answer 2

You want to merge with the squash option. That's if you want to do it one branch at a time.

git merge --squash feature1

If you want to merge all the branches at the same time as single commits, then first rebase interactively and squash each feature then octopus merge:

git checkout feature1
git rebase -i master

Squash into one commit then repeat for the other features.

git checkout master
git merge feature1 feature2 feature3 ...

That last merge is an "octopus merge" because it's merging a lot of branches at once.

Hope this helps

Answer 3

Suppose you worked in feature/task1 with multiple commits.

1. Go to your project branch (project/my_project)

   git checkout project/my_project
   

2. Create a new branch (feature/task1_bugfix)

   git checkout -b feature/task1_bugfix
   

3. Marge with the --squash option

   git merge --squash feature/task1
   

4. Create a single commit

   git commit -am "add single comments"
   

5. Push your branch

   git push --set-upstream origin feature/task1_bugfix
   

Answer 4

Use

git status 

to check what's going on.

Then

git checkout master 
git merge --squash bugfix
git add (add which files you want or use wildcard command like ".")

Then

git commit -m "message"

And now last but not the least

git push -u origin master

Here origin can be other remote you prefer.

Answer 5

You can use tool I've created to make this process easier: git-squash. For example to squash all commits on feature branch that has been branched from master branch, write:

git squash master
git push --force

Answer 6

What finally cleared this up for me was a comment showing that:

git checkout main
git merge --squash feature

is the equivalent of doing:

git checkout feature
git diff main > feature.patch
git checkout main
patch -p1 < feature.patch
git add .

When I want to merge a feature branch with 105(!!) commits and have them all squashed into one, I don't want to git rebase -i origin/master because I need to separately resolve merge conflicts for each of the intermediate commits (or at least the ones which git can't figure out itself). Using git merge --squash gets me the result I want, of a single commit for merging an entire feature branch. And, I only need to do at most one manual conflict resolution.