Git interactive rebase, squash, amend and other ways of rewriting history

“Please rebase on top of main and we’ll merge your pull request”. “Can you please squash your commits together so we get a clean, reversible git history?”. “Can you rewrite your commit’s message to describe better the problem it solves, and how it solves it?”. Questions like these are commonly asked in pull requests. Let’s see why they exist, how to perform them, and their possible problems. Chang