Interactive Rebasing for History
Use interactive rebase to rewrite commit history, squash commits, reorder, or edit messages before pushing.
Meet Interactive Rebase
Welcome to a powerful Git tool: interactive rebase! It allows you to rewrite your project's commit history before sharing it with others.
Think of it as a time machine for your commits, letting you clean up, combine, or reorder changes to create a clear, linear story of your work.
Why Clean Up History?
Why would you want to rewrite history?
- Clarity: Make your project's commit log easy to read and understand.
- Conciseness: Combine small, incremental commits into a single, meaningful change.
- Debugging: A clean history helps when using tools like
git bisectto find where a bug was introduced. - Better Pull Requests: Present a polished set of changes to collaborators.
All lessons in this course
- Manual Merge Conflict Resolution
- Interactive Rebasing for History
- Cherry-picking Commits
- Using Git Rerere to Reuse Conflict Resolutions