I am trying to squash some commits using magit. I tried two different approaches choosing different commit ids to pick and squash. Despite the fact that none of them worked out, the error messages varied. Unfortunately, I cannot understand any of them.
I did a gif to show what happens and I put it on github.
How can I solve this? What should I try? Why is this happening?
Thanks.
When you squash a commit, it is squashed into the previous non-squashed commit. You're marking the very first commit in the list as a commit to be squashed, so there's no prior non-squashed commit to squash it into. It's a bit like starting a new repository and using git commit --amend before you've made your first commit.
You need:
pick this commit
squash into ^
squash into ^
Note also that Git's rebase listing runs from top-to-bottom chronologically, as opposed to the log which is in reverse-chronological order.
Note that this isn't actually an Emacs/Magit question -- the point of confusion is no different in the standard Git UI.
