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But shouldn't be. How hard is it to summarize your work in a few words? Even a bad description is more memorable than a hash.
The post mentions that these are for commits in a merge request before squash. When they’re squashed a proper message is given.
Also, squashing is a pretty bad practice as it is. I can understand that it may make sense sometimes, but most of the time if you don't commit every other character you input, you're better off leaving some history of how your code evolved and what changes were coming together
I think squashing is great and I would never want to go back. It helps ensuring:
And IMO, if your work warrants multiple commits, then it probably also warrants multiple merge requests. Merge requests should be rather small to make it easier to review.
Edit: another good thing is that when we decide to release, we can easily look through the commit history for a change log. No more sifting through minor fixes commits.
git rebase
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Git rebase can be hard to understand for many. Not everyone has the blessing of being in a team of Git gurus.
It's more about the tooling. IDEs make it really simple.
Also people get scared when they hear it because of utterances like yours. I'm dumb af. Git rebase for your use cases can be renamed to "git edit-history $fromCommit". Nothing special about it.
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