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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

How you could somewhat rebase manually (to understand the effect; or because you like to handle the merge conflicts more granular or be more selective):

We assume we have the branch "Feat" which was started on an old version of "Main", and now want to rebase it:

  • Rename "Feat" to "Old" (does not happen during rebase, but we kinda need it for this demonstration)
  • Create "Feat" at the newest (or wherever you want) commit of "Main"
  • Cherrypick all commits from "Old" into "Feat"

Et viola - you kinda manually rebased "Feat" on "Main"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Unless you really hate the commits that say "merged branch X into Y" I never saw rebasing as any easier than merging.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Rebasing shines for local commits not remote commits. IE rebase your commits onto the remote or amend the previous commit (yes that's actually a rebase)