Git Rebase — Free Git & GitHub Tutorial
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TL;DR: Learn Git Rebase in Git & GitHub with a free, beginner-friendly tutorial, examples and practice for Indian students on Syllab.in.
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Git Rebase in Git & GitHub
Rebasing rewrites your branch's commit history on top of another branch. Instead of a merge commit, rebasing makes your commits appear as if they were made after the target branch's latest commit. It keeps history clean and linear.
Rebasing is powerful but should be used carefully: never rebase commits that are already pushed publicly (others might be working from them). Use it for local cleanup before pushing.
Priya has 3 commits on her feature branch. She rebases onto main to "replay" her commits on top of main's latest work. This avoids a merge commit and keeps the history clean.
Git Rebase — Syntax
git rebase <branch-name> # Rebase current branch onto another git rebase -i HEAD~3 # Interactive rebase (edit 3 commits)
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