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Re:Why is it so hard to see code from 5 minutes ago? by ggpp on Thursday February 18, 2021 @10:18PM (#26189214)
> I believe many devs are afraid someone could see all their trial and error attempts and judge them

This is certainly part of the reason I do it. Sometimes I'll start repos anew, without the "mistake" commits and branches, and add that version to my Github before I send the link to a potential employer.

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Re:Why is it so hard to see code from 5 minutes ago? by Jtsummers on Thursday February 18, 2021 @10:33PM (#26189321)
https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Rewriting-History

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-merge

C-f squash

You can compress a series of commits into one with squash in git.

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