Interactive Rebase (Squash, Reorder, Edit) — Roadmap Step & Resources
Cleaning up commit history before sharing it: squashing, reordering and editing commits
- Level: intermediate
- Estimated time: 1 days
- Roadmap: Git & GitHub Fundamentals
Before this step
Mini projects
- Use interactive rebase to squash five messy commits into one clean commit
Interview questions
- Why is it considered unsafe to rebase commits that others have already pulled?
Study resources
- Rewriting History (Article) — The Pro Git book's chapter on interactive rebase for squashing and editing commits.
- Interactive Rebase Explained (Video) — A practical tutorial on squashing and reordering commits with interactive rebase.
Part of
- Merge Conflicts & Rebasing — section
- Git & GitHub Fundamentals roadmap — the full learning path