Squash your commits

GitHub has introduced new options for managing commit history when merging pull requests, allowing repository administrators to better align with their preferred workflows. Historically, the merge button on GitHub created merge commits that retained all commits from a feature branch, resulting in a complex but detailed history. Now, the platform offers commit squashing, which consolidates work-in-progress commits into a single commit, making the history cleaner and easier to navigate. Administrators can choose to allow both merge commits and commit squashing, retain only merge commits (the previous default), or enforce commit squashing on all merges. These options provide flexibility in maintaining a project's history and cater to different preferences for repository management.