squish commits

readme.md

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 To move back to a previous commit, but keep the changes as unstaged do `git reset HEAD~1`
 
 To move back to the previous commit and throw away the changes do `git reset HEAD~1 --hard`
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+## Squishing commits
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+If you have multiple commits and someone asks you to "squish them" they are asking you to convert your 5+ commits to be a single commit
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+The easiest way to do that is to count how many commits you have from master. Then just do `git reset HEAD~<YourCommitCountHere>` ex. `git reset HEAD~3` then afterwards make a new commit. You will then need to force push to your branch `git push origin YourBranchName --force`
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+![](rollbackexample.png)