Git Rebasing

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Overview

Be aware that rebasing rewrites history.

Simple Rebasing

Only two branches are involved.

More Complex Rebasing

Rewriting History

Rebasing removes the commits that have been applied to the target branch from repository.

Practical Use Cases

Moving a Branch Forward

You are working on a feature branch, named "A", created when the "develop" branch HEAD was commit "ef5". You committed work on the "A" branch, and your commit is "3ba". After a while, you want to apply your changes on the HEAD of "develop", since "develop" has evolved and you want to try

On branch task/of/PLAT-15252
Your branch and 'origin/task/of/PLAT-15252' have diverged,
and have 164 and 1 different commits each, respectively.
  (use "git pull" to merge the remote branch into yours)

Rebasing at the HEAD of the Base Branch