---
title: "rewrite history git history"
date: 2020-01-11T04:58:50+01:00
draft: false
snippet_types: ["git"]
---

```shell
$ git rebase -i HEAD~3
```

Using this command you can rewrite a series of commits via dropping, fixing, squshing, and picking. It's most helpful before pushing to a remote repo if you did a bunch of small commits you want to roll into one. 

source:

[git docs](https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Rewriting-History)