Add a git squash function?
3 messages between Aug 16, 2026 and Aug 16, 2026, from The Super Techie, Matej Dujava, Bradley Morgan.
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Hi,
I am a developer who often squashes their commits using Git. Currently, the simplest way to squash is to run the following two commands:
git reset --soft HEAD~3
git commit
Where 3 is the number of commits that a user would like to squash. However, what if there was a command like as follows:
git squash 3
Which did the same thing? This would save quite a bit of time for developers. Since some projects require the DCO, an -s flag could be added which would add a sign-off to the squashed commit as well.
Has this been suggested before?
~thesupertechie
Re: Add a git squash function?
On Sun, Aug 16, 2026 at 11:49:50AM -0700, The Super Techie wrote:
>Hi,
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>I am a developer who often squashes their commits using Git.
>Currently, the simplest way to squash is to run the following two
>commands:
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>git reset --soft HEAD~3
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>git commit
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>Where 3 is the number of commits that a user would like to squash.
>However, what if there was a command like as follows:
>
>Which did the same thing? This would save quite a bit of time for
>developers. Since some projects require the DCO, an -s flag could be
>added which would add a sign-off to the squashed commit as well.
when later commits are adressing feedback you can do fixup! or squash! commits and then cleanup before merge: `git rebase --autosquash HEAD~3`
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>Has this been suggested before?
Looks like there is a v13 [0] patchset discussing similar worflow, which started as [1].
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>git squash 3
suggested command was `git history squash HEAD~3` but this will keep message of the fist commit
[0] https://lore.kernel.org/git/pull.2337.v13.git.git.1786088371.gitgitgadget@gmail.com/ [1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/pull.2337.git.git.1781465141.gitgitgadget@gmail.com/
Thanks, Matej
Re: Add a git squash function?
Hi,
Yes, absolutely yes a squash function would be useful, anyone developing it, please do.
I get annoyed with rebase headaches.
Thanks!