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by ggpp 1948 days ago
> 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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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.