# Re: RFC: git squash

- From: Junio C Hamano \<hidden\>
- Date: 2018-02-23 20:31:10 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2018/02/7755251
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2018/02/7755251/t.md

```text
Julius Musseau [ref] writes:

> I'm embarrassed to realise your approach matches the top-voted
> stack-overflow answer on the subject:
> https://stackoverflow.com/a/5201642

I personally do not visit stack-overflow, but I am happy to see that
there are people who remember "right" way to do this among the folks
who do.

"reset --soft" was invented exactly for this use case, and you can
use it even with dirty working tree and dirty index (they are left
intact).
```