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 [[ DCO Failures ]]
 
-If your Pull Request fails the DCO check, it's necessary to fix the entire commit history in the PR. Although this is a situation we'd like to avoid the best practice is to squash the commit history to a single commit, append the DCO sign-off as described [[above|How to amend a Signoff]] or interactively in the rebase comment editing process, and force push. For example, if you have 2 commits in your history (each `^` steps back one commit in the history):
+If your Pull Request fails the DCO check, it's necessary to fix the entire commit history in the PR. Although this is a situation we'd like to avoid the best practice is to squash the commit history to a single commit, append the DCO sign-off as described [[above|How to amend a Signoff]] or interactively in the rebase comment editing process, and force push. For example, if you have 2 commits in your history (Note the `~2`):
 
 ```
-git rebase --interactive HEAD^^
+git rebase --interactive HEAD~2
 (interactive squash + DCO append)
 git push origin --force
 ```