Git Rebase: How to Hide Your Shameful Commit History

Sun, 11 Jan 2026 22:12:03 +0530

Let’s be real for a second. Your actual development process involves roughly 45 commits named “wip”, “fixing typo”, “minor fix”, “ffs why isn’t this working”, and finally, “this time it works i think.”

Now, I can’t be the only one who has nightmares about juniors laughing at my commit history? Right? …Right? You never want this to happen. You want to look like a disciplined, experienced engineer who writes perfect code in a single, surgical commit.

Rebase on Ansuman Satapathy

Git Rebase: How to Hide Your Shameful Commit History