#GIT REBASE HOW TO#

Reapply all clean cherry-picks of any upstream commit instead of preemptively dropping them. For commits which do not start empty but become empty after rebasing, see the -empty flag This flag exists as a convenient shortcut, such as for cases where external tools generate many empty commits and you want them all removed. Usage of this flag will probably be rare, since you can get rid of commits that start empty by just firing up an interactive rebase and removing the lines corresponding to the commits you don’t want. The default is to keep commits which start empty, since creating such commits requires passing the -allow-empty override flag to git commit, signifying that a user is very intentionally creating such a commit and thus wants to keep it. that do not change anything from its parent) in the result.

Keep commits that start empty before the rebase (i.e. ) are detected and dropped as a preliminary step (unless -reapply-cherry-picks is passed)ĭo not keep commits that start empty before the rebase (i.e. Note that commits which start empty are kept (unless -no-keep-empty is specified), and commits which are clean cherry-picks (as determined by git log -cherry-mark. Other options, like -exec, will use the default of drop unless -i/-interactive is explicitly specified. With ask (implied by -interactive), the rebase will halt when an empty commit is applied allowing you to choose whether to drop it, edit files more, or just commit the empty changes. With drop (the default), commits that become empty are dropped.

#GIT REBASE HOW TO#

How to handle commits that are not empty to start and are not clean cherry-picks of any upstream commit, but which become empty after rebasing (because they contain a subset of already upstream changes). This option may become a no-op in the future once the merge backend handles everything the apply one does Use applying strategies to rebase (calling git-am internally). If a temporary stash entry was created using -autostash, it will be saved to the stash list The index and working tree are also left unchanged as a result. Otherwise HEAD will be reset to where it was when the rebase operation was startedĪbort the rebase operation but HEAD is not reset back to the original branch. If was provided when the rebase operation was started, then HEAD will be reset to. Restart the rebasing process after having resolved a merge conflictĪbort the rebase operation and reset HEAD to the original branch.

Although both this option and -fork-point find the merge base between and, this option uses the merge base as the starting point on which new commits will be created, whereas -fork-point uses the merge base to determine the set of commits which will be rebased While the feature is being worked on, the upstream branch may advance and it may not be the best idea to keep rebasing on top of the upstream but to keep the base commit as-is. This option is useful in the case where one is developing a feature on top of an upstream branch. Running git rebase -keep-base is equivalent to running git rebase -onto …. Set the starting point at which to create the new commits to the merge base of. You can leave out at most one of A and B, in which case it defaults to HEAD As a special case, you may use 'A.B' as a shortcut for the merge base of A and B if there is exactly one merge base. May be any valid commit, and not just an existing branch name. If the -onto option is not specified, the starting point is. Starting point at which to create the new commits.

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