Rebase

Rebase is a command in Git that allows us to rewrite commit history. Make use of it to keep a clean commit history!

Refer to the rebase documentation here

Some Use Cases

cleaning up the history of your feature branch before merging into dev
integrating new features from dev branch into your feature branch without creating a merge commit

If uncomfortable with using rebase, you can create a temporary copy of your branch to test out rebase

⚠️ If your feature branch has already been pushed, you will need to force push and overwrite the remote branch
❌ DO NOT rebase and force push to a shared branch

Force pushing to a shared branch will potentially overwrite the work of other developers when they pull