You can just use git revert -m1 to revert a merge commit to the first parent (aka, what git reverting the squashed commit would do). -m1 says "revert to the first parent, aka the one that git squash preserves.
git revert really just resets the checked out tree to a specific tree hash, and prepares a pretty commit message. It doesn't really have much to do with the history itself. You could pretty much get the same result by doing (haven't fully tried this out, just a sketch):
You can just use
git revert -m1to revert a merge commit to the first parent (aka, what git reverting the squashed commit would do).-m1says "revert to the first parent, aka the one that git squash preserves.git revert really just resets the checked out tree to a specific tree hash, and prepares a pretty commit message. It doesn't really have much to do with the history itself. You could pretty much get the same result by doing (haven't fully tried this out, just a sketch):