Git Fundamentals

Rebasing - keep your commit history clean

Introduction

Rebasing is replaying history

Follow along:

http://willi.am/git-fundamentals-rebasing/

https://github.com/itsananderson/rebase-examples/

Why?

Consider a common example
You are working on a feature branch...

Now somebody does more work on the master branch

You could merge changes from master with
git merge master

But then things get crazy if you do this several times when developing your feature

There is a better way

git rebase master

Merge Conflicts

Sometimes a merge fails

Check your status: git status

Resolve conflicts and git rebase --continue

Modifying History

What if we do not want C2, C3 and C4?

git rebase -i master

"But I don't like VIM!!!1"

1. You should learn vim
2. https://github.com/github/gitpad