RE: Merging commits together into a super-commit

> On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 13:19 +0200, Raimund Bauer wrote:
> > > Hi,
> >  <snip> 
> > You don't want to be 
> > > correcting a whole bunch of merge failures for every commit 
> > > in your current tree.
> > > 
> > > So far the only was I can see to do this is a:
> > > 
> > > git-diff master..HEAD > my.patch
> > > 
> > > And then re-applying your patch in stages, manually doing the commits.
> > > 
> > > Am I missing something?
> > 
> > git merge --squash ?
> 
> Hmm, that would do although it only works on whole trees, you can't
> specify a range of commits. So you would have to cherrypick groups of
> changes onto other branches and then merge them together with a couple
> of --squashes