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Or just git rebase -i like normal people.

Not sure why downvoted, this is the "correct" way. Can also do --autosquash etc. at the same time.

what makes this more correct than the other way? if anything an interactive rebase requires a lot more ceremony

Throwing away the commit and doing it again can easily go wrong. It is easy to commit unintended changes by mistake.

The interactive rebase is a completely normal operation and intended for exactly this situation. It is also much easier to craft more than one commit, and last minute fixes of spelling errors and such things.

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