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Git Essentials ??? Second Edition

You're reading from   Git Essentials ??? Second Edition Create, merge, and distribute code with Git, the most powerful and flexible versioning system available

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787120723
Length 238 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Ferdinando Santacroce Ferdinando Santacroce
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Rebasing

Now I want to tell you something about the git rebase command; a rebase is a common term while using a versioning system, and even in Git this is a hot topic.

Basically, with git rebase you rewrite history; with this statement, I mean you can use rebase command to achieve the following:

  • Combine two or more commits into a new one
  • Discard a previous commit you did
  • Change the starting point of a branch, split it, and much more

Reassembling commits

One of the widest uses of the git rebase command is for reordering or combining commits. For this first approach, imagine you have to combine two different commits.

Suppose we erroneously added half a grape in the shoppingList.txt file, then the other half, but at the end...

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