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How to squash all git commits into one?

How do you squash your entire repository down to the first commit?

I can rebase to the first commit, but that would leave me with 2 commits. Is there a way to reference the commit before the first one?

Solution

  • Perhaps the easiest way is to just create a new repository with current state of the working copy. If you want to keep all the commit messages you could first do git log > original.log and then edit that for your initial commit message in the new repository:

    rm -rf .git
git init
git add .
git commit

    or

    git log > original.log
# edit original.log as desired
rm -rf .git
git init
git add .
git commit -F original.log