🔧 Git Squash on terminal

This week for lab 5, we were supposed to refactor the open source project that we have been working with. After a lot of contributions from others students, the code base was expanded and it was about time some refactoring was done.
So here I am refactoring the code and learning git's squash and merge feature at the same time. This lab was very open ended with how we wanted to refactor the code, So I decided to do it by making more functions, enhancing the variable names and lastly separating the logic into different files.

Making more functions

There was some logic that I felt can be extracted into functions. Like the logic responsible for parsing the TOML file.

Better variable names

After a lot of changes this past month, there were a lot of variables with similar name that resulted in some confusion. I updated those variable names in this commit.

Making more files

Finally, I took all the logic that was responsible for parsing the arguments and bundled it into a new args.js file, and updated the imports accordingly in the command.js file.

All of these changes were one commit and in total I made three commits for the three changes. After the coding part was done, I squashed using the git rebase main -i command which opened an interactive VIM editor for me to manage my squash. This resulted in a new commit that squashed all of my three commits. I then merged this to main and pushed it to origin.

I learned how to squash all of my different commits into one this week, until now I was relying on the githubs squash and merge feature while making PRs.