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TL;DR: Squash your PRs with one click at https://squasher.nomeata.de/.

Very recently I got this response from the project maintainer at a pull request I contributed: “Thanks, approved, please squash so that I can merge.”

It’s nice that my contribution can go it, but why did the maintainer not just press the “Squash and merge button”, and instead adds the this unnecessary roundtrip to the process? Anyways, maintainers make the rules, so I play by them. But unlike the maintainer, who can squash-and-merge with just one click, squashing the PR’s branch is surprisingly laberous: Github does not allow you to do that via the Web UI (and hence on mobile), and it seems you are expected to go to your computer and juggle with git rebase --interactive.

I found this rather annoying, so I created Squasher, a simple service that will squash your branch for you. There is no configuration, just paste the PR url. It will use the PR title and body as the commit message (which is obviously the right way™), and create the commit in your name:

If you find this useful, or found it to be buggy, let me know. The code is at https://github.com/nomeata/squasher if you are curious about it.