Hasty Treat - Git Rebase Explained

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In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about Git Rebase — what it is and how and when to use it!

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Show Notes

05:12 - Why and when to rebase?

• git rebase -i is interactive
• Rebase allows you to rewind your current branch, apply the changes of another branch to it, and then on top of that, apply your new commits.
• Common uses:
  • Squash all commits into one or multiple commits
  • Reword commits
• These lines can be re-ordered — they are executed from top to bottom.
  • p, pick = use commit
  • r, reword = use commit, but edit the commit message
  • e, edit = use commit, but stop for amending
  • s, squash = use commit, but meld into previous commit
  • f, fixup = like “squash”, but discard this commit’s log message
  • x, exec = run command (the rest of the line) using shell
  • b, break = stop here (continue rebase later with ‘git rebase --continue’)
  • d, drop = remove commit
  • l, label = label current HEAD with a name
  • t, reset = reset HEAD to a label
  • m, merge [-C | -c ] [# ]

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• Git Rebasing

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