302 — Interactive Rebase

Master interactive rebase to rewrite commit history: squash commits, reword messages, reorder changes, and create a clean, professional Git history.

Learning Objectives

Understand when and why to rebase

Squash multiple commits into one

Reword commit messages

Reorder and drop commits

Handle rebase conflicts

Know when NOT to rebase

Step 1

Set up a repository with messy commit history that we'll clean up using interactive rebase.

mkdir -p ~/git-practice/lesson-302

cd ~/git-practice/lesson-302

git init

echo "# Task Manager" > README.md

git add README.md

git commit -m "Initial commit"

We'll create a repository with intentionally messy commits to practice cleaning up history before sharing with others.

Repository initialized with an initial commit.