Comment by lmm

> I used git in the terminal and the diffs/patches/merges/pull requests don't turn out right

Your answer there is just doing git pull --rebase by hand. I don't like that style at all, but if you must do it surely use the command that's designed for doing it.

> I pushed stupid things onto the remote server

Worth saying you can branch before fixing - that might be a little less intimidating than "access by commit ID"

> I already made my changes in multiple commits, but the repo owner wants me to rebase it to a single commit

Disagree with "you should do it", though that's probably a political question.