Squash Merge — Free Git & GitHub Tutorial
Learn Squash Merge in Git & GitHub with a free, beginner-friendly tutorial, examples and practice for Indian students on Syllab.in.
TL;DR: Learn Squash Merge in Git & GitHub with a free, beginner-friendly tutorial, examples and practice for Indian students on Syllab.in.
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Squash Merge in Git & GitHub
Squash merge combines all commits from a feature branch into a single commit before merging to main. This keeps main's history clean by avoiding many small "work in progress" commits.
Example: your feature branch has 10 commits (many with "fix typo", "oops", "trying again"). Squash merge compresses these into 1 clean commit in main.
GitHub has a "Squash and merge" button. Priya submits a PR with 15 commits; GitHub squashes them into 1 commit when merged to main.
Squash Merge — Syntax
# On GitHub PR, click "Squash and merge" instead of "Create merge commit"
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