Reducing GitHub commits

In order to test functionality of GitHub, I’ve had to make many commits and pushes onto GitHub. After making adjustments I didn’t need this multitude of commits.

It is possible to remove, or merge, a set of commits on GitHub by doing the following:

git reset --soft <LAST-COMMIT-THAT'S-OK>
git commit -m 'Many squashed commits'
git push --force origin master

based on this article. To determine the <LAST-COMMIT-THAT'S-OK> run git --no-pager log.

I typically do an incremental update with:

git add .; git commit -m again; git push

To initially set up, I’ve used (checkout master or gh-pages):

git init .
git remote add origin https://github.com/cygnyx/REPOSITORY.git
git checkout -b master
git pull