Is it possible to somehow “cleanse” the branch of unnecessary intermediate commits?

Question

git

In the course of development, I sometimes make a lot of intermediate commits, which I would later like to delete when publishing a branch so that it reads better, and who cares what kind of darkness my mind wandered while I was writing the code :

D leave only key commits in the branch that can really be useful in the future.

What is the best way to do this? From the terminal, or better - from VSC.

How is such a process generally called (if it is called at all, of course, but I think that I'm not the only one)))

I.e. can you "merge" commits? Or do something else with them so that they become smaller, and the final state remains the same.

Thank you.

Answer 1

squash