docs/src/git-squash-branch.txt

git-squash-branch(1)
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NAME
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git-squash-branch -
include::_git-squash-branch_desc.helper.txt[]

SYNOPSIS
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[verse]
'git squash-branch' [-m <message>]

DESCRIPTION
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`git squash-branch` is a simple helper command. It takes all the commits on the
current branch from the 'merge_base' to HEAD, and reduces them to a single
commit. The new commit will contain a summary of all the commits which were
squashed, preceeded by a header message indicating that it's the result of a
squash (or the message you pass on the command line.).

Squashing branches is useful when trying to rebase-update over branches which
were pushed to their upsteram (or committed by the 'Commit Queue'), and then
conflicting changes landed in upstream on top of the push/commit. If you know
that your branch was committed but linkgit:git-rebase-update[1] isn't able to
automatically clean it, you can squash the troublesome branch before `git
rebase-update`, and then when `git rebase-update` presents the conflict, you can
verify that the conflict diff is what you expected (and then skip it with
`git rebase --skip`).

OPTIONS
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-m <message>::
--message=<message>::
  Optional message to use for the first line of the squashed commit. If omitted,
  it defaults to "git squash commit.".

EXAMPLE
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[subs="specialcharacters,quotes,attributes"]
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[white]**$ git map**
[white blue-background]##\*##{zwsp}[blue-background red]** 7dcfe47       ** [green]##(##{zwsp}[aqua]**frozen_changes**{zwsp}[green]##)## [yellow]##2014-03-12## \~ FREEZE.unindexed
* [red]**4b0c180**        [yellow]##2014-03-12## \~ modfile
* [red]**59a7cca**        [yellow]##2014-03-12## \~ a deleted file
* [red]**6bec695**        [green]##(##{zwsp}[red]##origin/master##{zwsp}[green]##)## [yellow]##2014-03-11## \~ Add neat feature    [white]**<(frozen_changes)**
* [red]**d15a38a**        [yellow]##2014-03-11## \~ Epic README update
* [red]**d559894**        [green]##(##{zwsp}[lime]**master**{zwsp}[green]##)## [yellow]##2014-03-11## \~ Important upstream change
[red]##|## * [red]**9c311fd**      [green]##(##{zwsp}[lime]**cool_feature**{zwsp}[green]##)## [yellow]##2014-03-11## \~ Respond to CL comments
[red]##|## [green]##|## * [red]**2a1eeb2**    [green]##(##{zwsp}[lime]**subfeature**{zwsp}[green]##)## [yellow]##2014-03-11## \~ integrate with CoolService
[red]##|## [green]##|## * [red]**d777af6**    [yellow]##2014-03-11## \~ slick commenting action
[red]##|## [green]##|/##
[red]##|## * [red]**265803a**      [yellow]##2014-03-11## \~ another improvement    [white]**<(subfeature)**
[red]##|## * [red]**6d831ac**      [green]##(##{zwsp}[fuchsia]**spleen_tag**{zwsp}[green]##)## [yellow]##2014-03-11## \~ Refactor spleen
[red]##|## * [red]**82e74ab**      [yellow]##2014-03-11## \~ Add widget
[red]##|/##
* [red]**d08c5b3**        [green]##(##{zwsp}[lime]**bogus_noparent**{zwsp}[green]##)## [yellow]##2014-03-11## \~ Wonderful beginnings    [white]**<(cool_feature)**
[white]**$ git squash-branch "cool squash demo"**
[white]**$ git map**
[white blue-background]##*##{zwsp}[blue-background red]** 2c81508       ** [green]##(##{zwsp}[aqua]**frozen_changes**{zwsp}[green]##)## [yellow]##2014-03-22## \~ cool squash demo
* [red]**6bec695**        [green]##(##{zwsp}[red]##origin/master##{zwsp}[green]##)## [yellow]##2014-03-11## \~ Add neat feature    [white]**<(frozen_changes)**
* [red]**d15a38a**        [yellow]##2014-03-11## \~ Epic README update
* [red]**d559894**        [green]##(##{zwsp}[lime]**master**{zwsp}[green]##)## [yellow]##2014-03-11## \~ Important upstream change
[red]##|## * [red]**9c311fd**      [green]##(##{zwsp}[lime]**cool_feature**{zwsp}[green]##)## [yellow]##2014-03-11## \~ Respond to CL comments
[red]##|## [green]##|## * [red]**2a1eeb2**    [green]##(##{zwsp}[lime]**subfeature**{zwsp}[green]##)## [yellow]##2014-03-11## \~ integrate with CoolService
[red]##|## [green]##|## * [red]**d777af6**    [yellow]##2014-03-11## \~ slick commenting action
[red]##|## [green]##|/##
[red]##|## * [red]**265803a**      [yellow]##2014-03-11## \~ another improvement    [white]**<(subfeature)**
[red]##|## * [red]**6d831ac**      [green]##(##{zwsp}[fuchsia]**spleen_tag**{zwsp}[green]##)## [yellow]##2014-03-11## \~ Refactor spleen
[red]##|## * [red]**82e74ab**      [yellow]##2014-03-11## \~ Add widget
[red]##|/##
* [red]**d08c5b3**        [green]##(##{zwsp}[lime]**bogus_noparent**{zwsp}[green]##)## [yellow]##2014-03-11## ~ Wonderful beginnings    [white]**<(cool_feature)**
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include::_aliases.txt[]

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[alias]
  git squash = squash-branch
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SEE ALSO
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linkgit:git-rebase-update[1]

include::_footer.txt[]

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