Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/2] rebuash - squash/rebase in a single step

[Edmundo Carmona Antoranz <eantoranz@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 12:54 AM Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
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>
> and then do:
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>   git merge --squash feature
>
> I get the same merge that rebuash is doing (with R6 as the merge base,
> so we see F5 and R7 conflicting with each other). And then when I finish
> it with "git commit", the result is a linear strand with M3 at the tip
> (and its commit message is even auto-populated with information from the
> squashed commits).
>
> -Peff

From the point of view of the revisions that you produce in the end,
it's the same thing, but you are not rebasing/squashing your feature
branch, you are moving your upstream branch to where you want the
squashed/rebased branch to be. So, in fact you would need more steps,
something like (starting from your feature branch being checked out):

git checkout --detach $( git rev-parse --abbrev-ref --symbolic-full-name @{u} )
git merge --squash my-feature-branch
git branch -f my-feature-branch
git checkout my-feature-branch

Yes, it works. Only that with rebuash you would do (starting from the
feature branch being checked out branch):

git rebuash

as long as the upstream branch is set, of course.

I think it makes more sense in terms of development flow of feature
branches, if you know in the end you will give up a squashed branch:

modify
commit
modify
commit
git pull # no need to use pull --rebase, merges will be fine
modify
commit
modify
commit
git pull
git modify
# now I'm ready to rebase/squash
git fetch
git rebuash

adding history could be done with an additional option (--hist
(default) and --no-hist?)

But, as you said, it's not like it's not possible to do it (with a
little more effort) with available tools like merge --squash