Rebase cheat sheet

• Philip Borenstein
• •
• 14 June 2025

• git
• git-advanced
• mermaid
• version-control
• workflows

    gitGraph LR:
       commit id: "C1"
       commit id: "C2"
       branch "topic"
       commit id: "C3"
       commit id: "C4"
       checkout main
       commit id: "C5"
       commit id: "C6" tag: "HEAD"

# git rebase main topic
$ git checkout topic
$ git rebase main

    gitGraph LR:
       commit id: "C1"
       commit id: "C2"
       branch "old topic" order: 3
       commit id: "C3"
       commit id: "C4" tag: "ORIG_HEAD"
       checkout main
       commit id: "C5"
       commit id: "C6"
       branch "topic"
       commit id: "C3′"
       commit id: "C4′" tag: "HEAD"

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