Mastering Git

git merge --squash iss10 git commit -m Merged iss10 In case you need to merge iss10 into master again in the future, right now you should update iss10 to ...

With --no-squash perform the merge and commit the result. This option can be used to override --squash. With --squash, --commit is not allowed, and will fail. Git-mergetool[1] · Merge-base · 2.15.4 12/06/19 · 2.13.7 05/22/18

With --no-squash perform the merge and commit the result. This option can be used to override --squash. With --squash, --commit is not allowed, and will fail. - ...

If, in a magit-status buffer, I hit m -s n and then select a branch, I get an error fatal: You cannot combine --squash with --no-ff.

git merge --squash This will merge the changes into your working tree without creating a merge commit.

git merge --squash merges (verb), but does not make a merge (noun). The merge header you mention is not in the commits in that form.

The best workaround I've found is to use -m with the commit, then immediately run git commit --amend . This seems awkward to me, though, and it ...

Squash merges are more valuable than merge commits because entire new features or bug fixes can be compressed into a single commit.

Squash merges, as it's proponents argue, are more valuable than merge commits because entire new features or bug fixes can be compressed into a ...