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Git Version Control Cookbook

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Git Version Control Cookbook

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Git Version Control Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Rebasing commits to another branch


To start with, we are going to perform a very simple rebase where we will introduce a new file, commit this file, make a change to it, and then commit it again so that we end up with 2 new commits.

Getting ready

Before we start, we need a repository to work in. You can use a previous clone of jgit, but to get a close to identical output from the example, you can clone the jgit repository.

The jgit repository can be cloned as follows:

$ git clone https://git.eclipse.org/r/jgit/jgit chapter4
$ cd chapter4

How to do it…

We start by creating a local branch and then make two commits by performing the following steps; these are the commits that we want to rebase onto another branch:

  1. Check out a new branch, rebaseExample, that tracks origin/stable-3.1:

     $ git checkout -b rebaseExample --track origin/stable-3.1
    Branch rebaseExample set up to track remote branch stable-  3.1  from origin.
    Switched to a new branch 'rebaseExample'
    
  2. Make two commits on the rebaseExample...