SMRTR ProgrammingApr 6, 2026Daily.dev

Git Commands For a Single Commit

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A client's one-commit-per-PR rule forced mastery of essential Git commands for cleaning up commit history. The article breaks down when to use git commit --amend for quick fixes, git reset --soft for collapsing recent commits while preserving changes, and git rebase -i for surgical history editing with reordering and selective squashing capabilities.

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