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[verse]
'git rebase' [-i | --interactive] [options] [--onto <newbase>]
- <upstream> [<branch>]
+ [<upstream>] [<branch>]
'git rebase' [-i | --interactive] [options] --onto <newbase>
--root [<branch>]
-
'git rebase' --continue | --skip | --abort
DESCRIPTION
`git checkout <branch>` before doing anything else. Otherwise
it remains on the current branch.
+If <upstream> is not specified, the upstream configured in
+branch.<name>.remote and branch.<name>.merge options will be used; see
+linkgit:git-config[1] for details. If you are currently not on any
+branch or if the current branch does not have a configured upstream,
+the rebase will abort.
+
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` (or
It is possible that a merge failure will prevent this process from being
completely automatic. You will have to resolve any such merge failure
and run `git rebase --continue`. Another option is to bypass the commit
-that caused the merge failure with `git rebase --skip`. To restore the
+that caused the merge failure with `git rebase --skip`. To check out the
original <branch> and remove the .git/rebase-apply working files, use the
command `git rebase --abort` instead.
<upstream>::
Upstream branch to compare against. May be any valid commit,
- not just an existing branch name.
+ not just an existing branch name. Defaults to the configured
+ upstream for the current branch.
<branch>::
Working branch; defaults to HEAD.
Restart the rebasing process after having resolved a merge conflict.
--abort::
- Restore the original branch and abort the rebase operation.
+ Abort the rebase operation and reset HEAD to the original
+ branch. If <branch> was provided when the rebase operation was
+ started, then HEAD will be reset to <branch>. Otherwise HEAD
+ will be reset to where it was when the rebase operation was
+ started.
+
+--keep-empty::
+ Keep the commits that do not change anything from its
+ parents in the result.
--skip::
Restart the rebasing process by skipping the current patch.
-X <strategy-option>::
--strategy-option=<strategy-option>::
Pass the <strategy-option> through to the merge strategy.
- This implies `\--merge` and, if no strategy has been
+ This implies `--merge` and, if no strategy has been
specified, `-s recursive`. Note the reversal of 'ours' and
'theirs' as noted in above for the `-m` option.
where point 2. consists of several instances of
-a. regular use
+a) regular use
+
1. finish something worthy of a commit
2. commit
-b. independent fixup
+
+b) independent fixup
+
1. realize that something does not work
2. fix that
3. commit it
Hard case: The changes are not the same.::
This happens if the 'subsystem' rebase had conflicts, or used
- `\--interactive` to omit, edit, squash, or fixup commits; or
- if the upstream used one of `commit \--amend`, `reset`, or
+ `--interactive` to omit, edit, squash, or fixup commits; or
+ if the upstream used one of `commit --amend`, `reset`, or
`filter-branch`.
NOTE: While an "easy case recovery" sometimes appears to be successful
even in the hard case, it may have unintended consequences. For
example, a commit that was removed via `git rebase
- \--interactive` will be **resurrected**!
+ --interactive` will be **resurrected**!
The idea is to manually tell 'git rebase' "where the old 'subsystem'
ended and your 'topic' began", that is, what the old merge-base
of the old 'subsystem', for example:
* With the 'subsystem' reflog: after 'git fetch', the old tip of
- 'subsystem' is at `subsystem@\{1}`. Subsequent fetches will
+ 'subsystem' is at `subsystem@{1}`. Subsequent fetches will
increase the number. (See linkgit:git-reflog[1].)
* Relative to the tip of 'topic': knowing that your 'topic' has three