In this exercise we will practice how to squash incomplete commits into one nice commit and replay it on top of the master branch.
This technique is useful in situations where you need to make changes to a pull request before it can be integrated.
Start the exercise by forking and cloning the repository.
The haiku
branch represents a feature branch that is to be rebased (moved) and squashed.
On the haiku
branch you find a script that prints a haiku:
$ python main.py
This is our haiku:
On a branch ...
by Kobayashi Issa
On a branch
floating downriver
a cricket, singing.
The haiku is great but the
commit history on
the haiku
branch is not (on purpose):
$ git log --oneline
65870f9 fix a copy-paste error
47a007d completed the haiku
a3278e3 another incomplete commit
54fba21 startign to work on it (commit with a typo)
3ff39a1 forgot to add a file
7e1f903 starting working on the haiku
c50a463 initial commit
Your task is to rebase the haiku
branch on top
of master
and squash the several small "incomplete" commits into one single
self-contained cherry-pickable commit.
In other words instead of this history:
we wish to arrive at this history:
by first rebasing the commits:
and later squashing them.
Verify the history and also that the script still works after the operation.