GitHub pull request showing commits that are already in target branch

Question

I\'m trying to review a pull request on GitHub to a branch that isn\'t master. The target branch was behind master and the pull request showed commits from master, so I merg

Answer 1

You need to add the following to your ~/.gitconfig file:

[rebase]
    autosquash = true

This will automatically achieve the same as what this answer shows.

I got this from here.