-
- Instead of merging the entire history from the subtree
- project, produce only a single commit that contains all
- the differences you want to merge, and then merge that
- new commit into your project.
-
- Using this option helps to reduce log clutter. People
- rarely want to see every change that happened between
- v1.0 and v1.1 of the library they're using, since none of the
- interim versions were ever included in their application.
-
- Using '--squash' also helps avoid problems when the same
- subproject is included multiple times in the same
- project, or is removed and then re-added. In such a
- case, it doesn't make sense to combine the histories
- anyway, since it's unclear which part of the history
- belongs to which subtree.
-
- Furthermore, with '--squash', you can switch back and
- forth between different versions of a subtree, rather
- than strictly forward. 'git subtree merge --squash'
- always adjusts the subtree to match the exactly
- specified commit, even if getting to that commit would
- require undoing some changes that were added earlier.
-
- Whether or not you use '--squash', changes made in your
- local repository remain intact and can be later split
- and send upstream to the subproject.
++
+Instead of merging the entire history from the subtree project, produce
+only a single commit that contains all the differences you want to
+merge, and then merge that new commit into your project.
++
+Using this option helps to reduce log clutter. People rarely want to see
+every change that happened between v1.0 and v1.1 of the library they're
+using, since none of the interim versions were ever included in their
+application.
++
+Using '--squash' also helps avoid problems when the same subproject is
+included multiple times in the same project, or is removed and then
+re-added. In such a case, it doesn't make sense to combine the
+histories anyway, since it's unclear which part of the history belongs
+to which subtree.
++
+Furthermore, with '--squash', you can switch back and forth between
+different versions of a subtree, rather than strictly forward. 'git
+subtree merge --squash' always adjusts the subtree to match the exactly
+specified commit, even if getting to that commit would require undoing
+some changes that were added earlier.
++
+Whether or not you use '--squash', changes made in your local repository
+remain intact and can be later split and send upstream to the
+subproject.