Polishing Your Feature Branch Commits
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when you create your own, personal feature branch you're allowed to do as much commits as you want, even allowing kinda dirty commit messages. this is a really powerful approach as you can jump back to any point in your dev cycle. however,
once you're ready to merge back to master
you should polish your commit history by doing a rebase. this is done using
git rebase -i head~<num-commits>
the following animated gif shows how do do it:

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