That's the point of squashing commits - Many of your changes will ultimately pare down into just a few logical thoughts, adding function X to feature A, then us

That's the point of squashing commits - Many of your changes will ultimately pare down into just a few logical thoughts, adding function X to feature A, then using that in function Y in feature B etc... It's not something that comes for free, of course, but if you make many small commits and try to get each file to compile each time you can often basically just squash by file or directory.