A Worked Example

Setup#

Type this in to begin the process of working through a real example of squashing and understand what it is:

1   mkdir lgthw_squashing
2   cd lgthw_squashing
3   git init
4   touch afile
5   git add afile
6   git commit -m "Initial commit"
7   for i in {1..10}
8   > do
9   > echo ＄i >> afile
10  > git commit -am "commit:＄{i}"
11  > done
12  git status
13  git log

You have created a Git repository with a history and seen its Git log.

Cloning#

Clone it into a new folder:

14  cd ..
15  git clone lgthw_squashing lgthw_squashing_clone
17  cd lgthw_squashing_clone
18  git remote -v
19  git log

You can see the remote of this second repository is set to the original one you created above, and the history has ten commits.

We’ve decided that this history is too complicated for us. We want to squash these ten commits into a single one that has the number 10 in afile.