![]() So you can handle any update conflict there. Once your work on a branch is done, you merge master (or any other branch where you want to merge) into it: git merge master You can squash your commits outside of GitHub, too. This is squashing in the GitHub PR process. This will eliminate all the previous Git commits that diverge from the head of the branch you’re merging to, and also remove all those commits where maybe you reverted changes, and so on. Instead of seeing all the individual commits contained in a Pull Request, you only see one commit, and in the PR merge process you can write a detailed and dedicated commit message and description. GitHub can do that for you automatically when you are merging a Pull Request, and it’s a workflow I’ve been using a lot on public Open Source repositories in the past. You want to do one thing before that: squashing your commits. You might do a series of quick commits where the message is “ok”, “trying this”, or “fix dumb mistake”.īut at some point you need to converge to a stable state and commit the changes back to master, or to any branch you want. Committing early and often is a great advantage because you can work on your code with the confidence that you can always return back to a working state, or at least to a state you know that something worked. This is also the default when working on a team-based or open source project. In some cases however I do not use this approach, and instead I create a branch for a big feature. For example if I’m doing a simple change, or adding a new post to the blog. In projects where I’m the only developer, which means all my personal projects, I do tend to work on master when I can. Two things I do however use sometimes are cherry-picking and squashing commits. I almost never use Git in the command line, and use GitHub Desktop which is the simplest and nicest Git client ever. It can be very complex, and I tend to avoid all that complexity. The advanced things that Git can do blow my mind. I consider myself a Git fan, but …I’m not an expert of Git.Ĭommit, fetch origin, pull origin, push to origin. In this example, I have a feature branch that has three commits.I use Git every day and I wrote a Git guide and a Git Cheat Sheet in the past. The best way to understand git squash is to look at the git log. You can choose to leave the commit message history or rewrite that as well, so it’s another opportunity to communicate the changes you introduce. Squashing commits can be done in a few ways, where your end goal is to rewrite the commit history and leave just one commit instead of multiple meaningless ones. ![]() Other than looking smarter, you can keep the history of the branch cleaner and much more readable for others. However, I do have a little trick up my sleeve that helps me push those changes like that 10x engineer on my team. Now I’m left with a branch full of, well, embarrassing commits that are heading straight to a pull request and code review. Let’s call it BDD: Brute-Force Driven Development. So I commit with a meaningless message, push test and, see an error. I usually do it when I’m working on deployment or build code, positive that it’s just a tiny fix, one little modification and that’s it. You know, the rapid commits when you are testing something, then fixing a typo, then commit again, push, test and on and on. We all do it, and I’m sure that you do too.
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