Rebasing
To rebase in Git, you can use the following steps:
- Make sure you are on the branch that you want to rebase.
- Run the
git rebasecommand followed by the name of the branch that you want to rebase onto. For example, to rebase the current branch onto the master branch, you would run the following command:
git rebase master- Git will prompt you to confirm the rebase. Press
Enterto confirm. - Git will replay the commits from the current branch onto the target branch.
- Once the rebase is complete, you will be on the target branch.
- Rebasing rewrites history, so it should only be done on local branches.
- Rebasing can cause conflicts if there are any changes that have been made to the target branch since the current branch was created.
- If there are conflicts, Git will prompt you to resolve them. Once you have resolved the conflicts, you can run the
git addcommand to stage the changes for commit. - To create a new commit with the resolved conflicts, run the
git commitcommand.
- Rebasing can help to clean up your commit history.
- Rebasing can help to resolve conflicts when merging branches.
- Rebasing can help to improve the readability of your commit history.
- Rebasing can rewrite history, which can be confusing for other developers who are working on the same project.
- Rebasing can cause conflicts if there are any changes that have been made to the target branch since the current branch was created.
- Rebasing can be difficult to undo.