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The "Fixup and Autosquash" Lesson is part of the full, Git In-depth course featured in this preview video. Here's what you'd learn in this lesson:
Reviewing the amend command, Nina reviews methods for associating changes to arbitrary commit using the fixup and autosquash flags for commit and rebase commands respectively.
Transcript from the "Fixup and Autosquash" Lesson
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>> Nina Zakharenko: Going back to amending, so as we saw earlier, using amend we can only kind of make changes to the previous commit that we made. But this is a great shortcut I use all the time that lets me amend any arbitrary commit using fixup.
>> Nina Zakharenko: I tell git that the current commit I want to make is a --fixup of a certain <SHA>.
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it's gonna create a new commit and mark it as a fixup. And I can git rebase -i with a --autosquash. That tells git that if it sees a commit marked with a fixup, to just squash it automatically with the right one. And when I git rebase -i, I wanna make sure that I'm specifying the parent of the <SHA> I fixed up, otherwise it won't work.
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And git's gonna just generate the right things for you. You can save and quit. You can use this to edit any commit in your history.
>> Nina Zakharenko: So here I wanna edit the middle commit. If I do commit --fixup, we'll see here on my git one line, that the message, that git created automatically is fixup!.
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That's an internal marker to git. That this commit is a fix up or an edit to this one down here that has the same commit message.
>> Nina Zakharenko: Now I could autosquash using the ref of the parent commit and that's what my rebase will look like.
>> Nina Zakharenko: So git's going to automatically reorder the commits and it'll mark the commit with a fixup action.
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And there we go. Once I look at my log, we'll see that the Add a blog post about Python now has a new <SHA>. It's been modified.
>> Nina Zakharenko: So a much quicker way of, you don't have to do an interactive rebase, if you just wanna modify one commit.
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>> Nina Zakharenko: I'm gonna skip explaining rebase --exec. You can go back to the slide if you need to, but it's a way to specify to get to run a command after every rebase action. So as it's replaying commits, you can say git, run this test after every commit. I want to make sure that my tests pass and that I'm not checking in any breaking commits.
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