The Git Rebase Handbook – A Definitive Guide to Rebasing
One of the most powerful tools a developer can have in their toolbox is git rebase. Yet it is notorious for being complex and misunderstood. The truth is, if you understand what it actually does, git rebase is a very elegant, and straightforward too...
One of the most powerful tools a developer can have in their toolbox is git rebase. Yet it is notorious for being complex and misunderstood.
The truth is, if you understand what it actually does, git rebase is a very elegant, and straightforward tool to achieve so many different things in Git.
In this tutorial, you learned about git rebase, a super-powerful tool to rewrite history in Git. You considered a few use cases where git rebase can be helpful, and how to use it with one, two, or three parameters, with and without the --onto switch.
I hope I was able to convince you that git rebase is powerful – but also that it is quite simple once you get the gist. It is a tool to "copy-paste" commits (or, more accurately, patches). And it's a useful tool to have under your belt.
Git UNDO — how to rewrite Git history with confidence
As a developer, your work with Git all the time.
Git - Rebasing
In Git, there are two main ways to integrate changes from one branch into another: the merge and the rebase. In this section you’ll learn what rebasing is, how to do it, why it’s a pretty amazing tool, and in what cases you won’t want to use it.
Branching and the power of rebase | Git from the Bottom Up
One of Git’s most capable commands for manipulating commits is the innocently-named rebase command. Basically, every branch you work from has one or more “base commits”: the commits that branch was born from. Take the following typical scenario, for example...
Interactive rebasing | Git from the Bottom Up
When rebase was run above, it automatically rewrote all the commits from W to Z in order to rebase the Z branch onto the D commit (i.e., the head commit of the D branch). You can, however, take complete control over how this rewriting is done. If you supply...
Git rebase --onto an overview
Removing commits from a current branch or changing parent branch.
