Git: “Cannot 'squash' without a previous commit” error while rebase

Question

I have the following in the to-do text of git rebase -i HEAD~2:

pick 56bcce7 Closes #2774
pick e43ceba Lint.py: Replace deprecated link

# Rebase 68         


        

Answer 1

Squash with the reverse logic. You'll be able to select the desired commit message at the later step.

• pick the first commit that you don't want the commit-message for.
• squash or fixup the commit(s) that you want to merge, until the one that has the commit message that you actually wanted.

pick 56bcce7 Closes #2774
squash e43ceba Lint.py: Replace deprecated link

• confirm the change (:x)
• delete the commit message(s) that you don't want and leave only the message from the commit that you desire (in this case: Lint.py: Replace deprecated link).
• confirm the choice (:x)

Hope it's clearer for somebody ✌