You can enforce, allow, or disable commit squashing for all pull request merges on your GitHub Enterprise instance in your repository.

You can configure pull request merge options on your GitHub Enterprise instance to meet your workflow needs and preferences for managing Git history.

  1. On GitHub Enterprise, navigate to the main page of the repository.

  2. Repository settings button
    Under your repository name, click Settings.

  3. allow_standard_merge_commits
    Under "Merge button", optionally select Allow merge commits. This allows contributors to merge a pull request with a full history of commits.

  4. Pull request squashed commits
    Under "Merge button", select Allow squash merging. This allows contributors to merge a pull request by squashing all commits into a single commit. If you select another merge method besides Allow squash merging, collaborators will be able to choose the type of merge commit when merging a pull request.

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