Rebase a feature branch onto an updated main branch
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Documented steps
Make sure your feature branch is checked out: git switch feature.
Fetch latest from the remote: git fetch origin.
Rebase onto the updated main: git rebase origin/main (or git rebase main if it is up to date locally). This replays your feature commits on top of main's tip.
If a conflict stops the rebase, edit the flagged files, then git add <file> for each resolved file, then git rebase --continue to replay the remaining commits.
To skip the current conflicting commit use git rebase --skip.
To abandon the whole rebase and return to the original branch tip use git rebase --abort.
To rewrite more precisely onto a different base, use git rebase --onto <newbase> <upstream> <branch>.
Known gotchas
Rebase rewrites commit history; only rebase commits that have not been shared/pushed, or coordinate a force-push with the team.
During a rebase the ORIG_HEAD is set to the pre-rebase tip but is not guaranteed to persist; use the reflog (@{1}) if you need it.
A conflict leaves the index containing the conflict; run git rebase --continue only after git add-ing every resolved file.
Commits that become empty after rebasing are dropped by default (--empty=drop); use --empty=keep or --empty=stop to change that.
If no upstream is given, rebase uses the configured upstream with --fork-point; it aborts if you are not on a branch or have no upstream.
Official doc: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-rebase
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