DESCRIPTION
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-git-rebase replaces <branch> with a new branch of the same name. When
-the --onto option is provided the new branch starts out with a HEAD equal
-to <newbase>, otherwise it is equal to <upstream>. It then attempts to
-create a new commit for each commit from the original <branch> that does
-not exist in the <upstream> branch.
+If <branch> is specified, git-rebase will perform an automatic
+`git checkout <branch>` before doing anything else. Otherwise
+it remains on the current branch.
+
+All changes made by commits in the current branch but that are not
+in <upstream> are saved to a temporary area. This is the same set
+of commits that would be shown by `git log <upstream>..HEAD`.
+
+The current branch is reset to <upstream>, or <newbase> if the
+--onto option was supplied. This has the exact same effect as
+`git reset --hard <upstream>` (or <newbase>).
+
+The commits that were previously saved into the temporary area are
+then reapplied to the current branch, one by one, in order.
It is possible that a merge failure will prevent this process from being
completely automatic. You will have to resolve any such merge failure
original <branch> and remove the .dotest working files, use the command
`git rebase --abort` instead.
-Note that if <branch> is not specified on the command line, the currently
-checked out branch is used.
-
Assume the following history exists and the current branch is "topic":
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typically this would be done with
- git update-index <filename>
+ git add <filename>
After resolving the conflict manually and updating the index with the