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1 | git-rebase(1) |
2 | ============= | |
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3 | |
4 | NAME | |
5 | ---- | |
c3f0baac | 6 | git-rebase - Forward-port local commits to the updated upstream head |
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7 | |
8 | SYNOPSIS | |
9 | -------- | |
e448ff87 | 10 | [verse] |
c2145384 | 11 | 'git rebase' [-i | --interactive] [options] [--exec <cmd>] [--onto <newbase>] |
15a147e6 | 12 | [<upstream>] [<branch>] |
0cd993a7 | 13 | 'git rebase' [-i | --interactive] [options] [--exec <cmd>] [--onto <newbase>] |
be496621 | 14 | --root [<branch>] |
eb9a7cb4 | 15 | 'git rebase' --continue | --skip | --abort | --edit-todo |
031321c6 | 16 | |
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17 | DESCRIPTION |
18 | ----------- | |
0b444cdb | 19 | If <branch> is specified, 'git rebase' will perform an automatic |
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20 | `git checkout <branch>` before doing anything else. Otherwise |
21 | it remains on the current branch. | |
22 | ||
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23 | If <upstream> is not specified, the upstream configured in |
24 | branch.<name>.remote and branch.<name>.merge options will be used; see | |
25 | linkgit:git-config[1] for details. If you are currently not on any | |
26 | branch or if the current branch does not have a configured upstream, | |
27 | the rebase will abort. | |
28 | ||
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29 | All changes made by commits in the current branch but that are not |
30 | in <upstream> are saved to a temporary area. This is the same set | |
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31 | of commits that would be shown by `git log <upstream>..HEAD` (or |
32 | `git log HEAD`, if --root is specified). | |
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33 | |
34 | The current branch is reset to <upstream>, or <newbase> if the | |
35 | --onto option was supplied. This has the exact same effect as | |
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36 | `git reset --hard <upstream>` (or <newbase>). ORIG_HEAD is set |
37 | to point at the tip of the branch before the reset. | |
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38 | |
39 | The commits that were previously saved into the temporary area are | |
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40 | then reapplied to the current branch, one by one, in order. Note that |
41 | any commits in HEAD which introduce the same textual changes as a commit | |
42 | in HEAD..<upstream> are omitted (i.e., a patch already accepted upstream | |
43 | with a different commit message or timestamp will be skipped). | |
69a60af5 | 44 | |
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45 | It is possible that a merge failure will prevent this process from being |
46 | completely automatic. You will have to resolve any such merge failure | |
cc120056 | 47 | and run `git rebase --continue`. Another option is to bypass the commit |
5960bc9d | 48 | that caused the merge failure with `git rebase --skip`. To check out the |
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49 | original <branch> and remove the .git/rebase-apply working files, use the |
50 | command `git rebase --abort` instead. | |
031321c6 | 51 | |
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52 | Assume the following history exists and the current branch is "topic": |
53 | ||
031321c6 | 54 | ------------ |
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55 | A---B---C topic |
56 | / | |
57 | D---E---F---G master | |
031321c6 | 58 | ------------ |
69a60af5 | 59 | |
228382ae | 60 | From this point, the result of either of the following commands: |
69a60af5 | 61 | |
031321c6 | 62 | |
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63 | git rebase master |
64 | git rebase master topic | |
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65 | |
66 | would be: | |
67 | ||
031321c6 | 68 | ------------ |
69a60af5 CW |
69 | A'--B'--C' topic |
70 | / | |
71 | D---E---F---G master | |
031321c6 | 72 | ------------ |
69a60af5 | 73 | |
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74 | *NOTE:* The latter form is just a short-hand of `git checkout topic` |
75 | followed by `git rebase master`. When rebase exits `topic` will | |
76 | remain the checked-out branch. | |
69a60af5 | 77 | |
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78 | If the upstream branch already contains a change you have made (e.g., |
79 | because you mailed a patch which was applied upstream), then that commit | |
b1889c36 | 80 | will be skipped. For example, running `git rebase master` on the |
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81 | following history (in which A' and A introduce the same set of changes, |
82 | but have different committer information): | |
83 | ||
84 | ------------ | |
85 | A---B---C topic | |
86 | / | |
87 | D---E---A'---F master | |
88 | ------------ | |
89 | ||
90 | will result in: | |
91 | ||
92 | ------------ | |
93 | B'---C' topic | |
94 | / | |
95 | D---E---A'---F master | |
96 | ------------ | |
97 | ||
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98 | Here is how you would transplant a topic branch based on one |
99 | branch to another, to pretend that you forked the topic branch | |
100 | from the latter branch, using `rebase --onto`. | |
69a60af5 | 101 | |
e52775f4 | 102 | First let's assume your 'topic' is based on branch 'next'. |
e2b850b2 | 103 | For example, a feature developed in 'topic' depends on some |
e52775f4 | 104 | functionality which is found in 'next'. |
69a60af5 | 105 | |
031321c6 | 106 | ------------ |
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107 | o---o---o---o---o master |
108 | \ | |
109 | o---o---o---o---o next | |
110 | \ | |
111 | o---o---o topic | |
112 | ------------ | |
113 | ||
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114 | We want to make 'topic' forked from branch 'master'; for example, |
115 | because the functionality on which 'topic' depends was merged into the | |
116 | more stable 'master' branch. We want our tree to look like this: | |
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117 | |
118 | ------------ | |
119 | o---o---o---o---o master | |
120 | | \ | |
121 | | o'--o'--o' topic | |
122 | \ | |
123 | o---o---o---o---o next | |
031321c6 | 124 | ------------ |
7fc9d69f | 125 | |
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126 | We can get this using the following command: |
127 | ||
b1889c36 | 128 | git rebase --onto master next topic |
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129 | |
130 | ||
131 | Another example of --onto option is to rebase part of a | |
132 | branch. If we have the following situation: | |
133 | ||
134 | ------------ | |
135 | H---I---J topicB | |
136 | / | |
137 | E---F---G topicA | |
138 | / | |
139 | A---B---C---D master | |
140 | ------------ | |
141 | ||
142 | then the command | |
143 | ||
b1889c36 | 144 | git rebase --onto master topicA topicB |
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145 | |
146 | would result in: | |
147 | ||
148 | ------------ | |
149 | H'--I'--J' topicB | |
150 | / | |
151 | | E---F---G topicA | |
152 | |/ | |
153 | A---B---C---D master | |
154 | ------------ | |
155 | ||
156 | This is useful when topicB does not depend on topicA. | |
157 | ||
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158 | A range of commits could also be removed with rebase. If we have |
159 | the following situation: | |
160 | ||
161 | ------------ | |
162 | E---F---G---H---I---J topicA | |
163 | ------------ | |
164 | ||
165 | then the command | |
166 | ||
b1889c36 | 167 | git rebase --onto topicA~5 topicA~3 topicA |
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168 | |
169 | would result in the removal of commits F and G: | |
170 | ||
171 | ------------ | |
172 | E---H'---I'---J' topicA | |
173 | ------------ | |
174 | ||
175 | This is useful if F and G were flawed in some way, or should not be | |
176 | part of topicA. Note that the argument to --onto and the <upstream> | |
177 | parameter can be any valid commit-ish. | |
178 | ||
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179 | In case of conflict, 'git rebase' will stop at the first problematic commit |
180 | and leave conflict markers in the tree. You can use 'git diff' to locate | |
031321c6 | 181 | the markers (<<<<<<) and make edits to resolve the conflict. For each |
2de9b711 | 182 | file you edit, you need to tell Git that the conflict has been resolved, |
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183 | typically this would be done with |
184 | ||
185 | ||
d7f078b8 | 186 | git add <filename> |
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187 | |
188 | ||
189 | After resolving the conflict manually and updating the index with the | |
190 | desired resolution, you can continue the rebasing process with | |
191 | ||
192 | ||
193 | git rebase --continue | |
8978d043 | 194 | |
8978d043 | 195 | |
0b444cdb | 196 | Alternatively, you can undo the 'git rebase' with |
8978d043 | 197 | |
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198 | |
199 | git rebase --abort | |
8978d043 | 200 | |
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201 | CONFIGURATION |
202 | ------------- | |
203 | ||
204 | rebase.stat:: | |
205 | Whether to show a diffstat of what changed upstream since the last | |
206 | rebase. False by default. | |
207 | ||
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208 | rebase.autosquash:: |
209 | If set to true enable '--autosquash' option by default. | |
210 | ||
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211 | rebase.autostash:: |
212 | If set to true enable '--autostash' option by default. | |
213 | ||
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214 | OPTIONS |
215 | ------- | |
c2145384 | 216 | --onto <newbase>:: |
69a60af5 CW |
217 | Starting point at which to create the new commits. If the |
218 | --onto option is not specified, the starting point is | |
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219 | <upstream>. May be any valid commit, and not just an |
220 | existing branch name. | |
873c3472 | 221 | + |
b9190e79 | 222 | As a special case, you may use "A\...B" as a shortcut for the |
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223 | merge base of A and B if there is exactly one merge base. You can |
224 | leave out at most one of A and B, in which case it defaults to HEAD. | |
69a60af5 | 225 | |
52a22d1e | 226 | <upstream>:: |
ea81fcc5 | 227 | Upstream branch to compare against. May be any valid commit, |
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228 | not just an existing branch name. Defaults to the configured |
229 | upstream for the current branch. | |
7fc9d69f | 230 | |
228382ae | 231 | <branch>:: |
52a22d1e | 232 | Working branch; defaults to HEAD. |
7fc9d69f | 233 | |
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234 | --continue:: |
235 | Restart the rebasing process after having resolved a merge conflict. | |
236 | ||
237 | --abort:: | |
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238 | Abort the rebase operation and reset HEAD to the original |
239 | branch. If <branch> was provided when the rebase operation was | |
240 | started, then HEAD will be reset to <branch>. Otherwise HEAD | |
241 | will be reset to where it was when the rebase operation was | |
242 | started. | |
031321c6 | 243 | |
90e1818f NH |
244 | --keep-empty:: |
245 | Keep the commits that do not change anything from its | |
246 | parents in the result. | |
247 | ||
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248 | --skip:: |
249 | Restart the rebasing process by skipping the current patch. | |
58634dbf | 250 | |
eb9a7cb4 AW |
251 | --edit-todo:: |
252 | Edit the todo list during an interactive rebase. | |
253 | ||
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254 | -m:: |
255 | --merge:: | |
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256 | Use merging strategies to rebase. When the recursive (default) merge |
257 | strategy is used, this allows rebase to be aware of renames on the | |
258 | upstream side. | |
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259 | + |
260 | Note that a rebase merge works by replaying each commit from the working | |
261 | branch on top of the <upstream> branch. Because of this, when a merge | |
262 | conflict happens, the side reported as 'ours' is the so-far rebased | |
263 | series, starting with <upstream>, and 'theirs' is the working branch. In | |
264 | other words, the sides are swapped. | |
58634dbf | 265 | |
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266 | -s <strategy>:: |
267 | --strategy=<strategy>:: | |
06f39190 | 268 | Use the given merge strategy. |
0b444cdb | 269 | If there is no `-s` option 'git merge-recursive' is used |
31ddd1ee TR |
270 | instead. This implies --merge. |
271 | + | |
0b444cdb | 272 | Because 'git rebase' replays each commit from the working branch |
31ddd1ee TR |
273 | on top of the <upstream> branch using the given strategy, using |
274 | the 'ours' strategy simply discards all patches from the <branch>, | |
275 | which makes little sense. | |
58634dbf | 276 | |
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277 | -X <strategy-option>:: |
278 | --strategy-option=<strategy-option>:: | |
279 | Pass the <strategy-option> through to the merge strategy. | |
6cf378f0 | 280 | This implies `--merge` and, if no strategy has been |
93ce190c | 281 | specified, `-s recursive`. Note the reversal of 'ours' and |
edfbbf7e | 282 | 'theirs' as noted above for the `-m` option. |
93ce190c | 283 | |
3ee5e540 NV |
284 | -S[<keyid>]:: |
285 | --gpg-sign[=<keyid>]:: | |
286 | GPG-sign commits. | |
287 | ||
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288 | -q:: |
289 | --quiet:: | |
290 | Be quiet. Implies --no-stat. | |
291 | ||
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292 | -v:: |
293 | --verbose:: | |
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294 | Be verbose. Implies --stat. |
295 | ||
296 | --stat:: | |
297 | Show a diffstat of what changed upstream since the last rebase. The | |
298 | diffstat is also controlled by the configuration option rebase.stat. | |
299 | ||
300 | -n:: | |
301 | --no-stat:: | |
302 | Do not show a diffstat as part of the rebase process. | |
b758789c | 303 | |
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304 | --no-verify:: |
305 | This option bypasses the pre-rebase hook. See also linkgit:githooks[5]. | |
306 | ||
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307 | --verify:: |
308 | Allows the pre-rebase hook to run, which is the default. This option can | |
309 | be used to override --no-verify. See also linkgit:githooks[5]. | |
310 | ||
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311 | -C<n>:: |
312 | Ensure at least <n> lines of surrounding context match before | |
313 | and after each change. When fewer lines of surrounding | |
314 | context exist they all must match. By default no context is | |
315 | ever ignored. | |
316 | ||
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317 | -f:: |
318 | --force-rebase:: | |
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319 | Force a rebase even if the current branch is up-to-date and |
320 | the command without `--force` would return without doing anything. | |
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321 | + |
322 | You may find this (or --no-ff with an interactive rebase) helpful after | |
323 | reverting a topic branch merge, as this option recreates the topic branch with | |
324 | fresh commits so it can be remerged successfully without needing to "revert | |
325 | the reversion" (see the | |
d5ff3b4b | 326 | link:howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.html[revert-a-faulty-merge How-To] for details). |
5e75d56f | 327 | |
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328 | --fork-point:: |
329 | --no-fork-point:: | |
330 | Use 'git merge-base --fork-point' to find a better common ancestor | |
331 | between `upstream` and `branch` when calculating which commits have | |
332 | have been introduced by `branch` (see linkgit:git-merge-base[1]). | |
333 | + | |
334 | If no non-option arguments are given on the command line, then the default is | |
335 | `--fork-point @{u}` otherwise the `upstream` argument is interpreted literally | |
336 | unless the `--fork-point` option is specified. | |
337 | ||
86c91f91 | 338 | --ignore-whitespace:: |
749485f6 | 339 | --whitespace=<option>:: |
0b444cdb | 340 | These flag are passed to the 'git apply' program |
5162e697 | 341 | (see linkgit:git-apply[1]) that applies the patch. |
7fe54385 | 342 | Incompatible with the --interactive option. |
059f446d | 343 | |
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344 | --committer-date-is-author-date:: |
345 | --ignore-date:: | |
0b444cdb | 346 | These flags are passed to 'git am' to easily change the dates |
570ccad3 | 347 | of the rebased commits (see linkgit:git-am[1]). |
56a05720 | 348 | Incompatible with the --interactive option. |
570ccad3 | 349 | |
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350 | -i:: |
351 | --interactive:: | |
1b1dce4b | 352 | Make a list of the commits which are about to be rebased. Let the |
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353 | user edit that list before rebasing. This mode can also be used to |
354 | split commits (see SPLITTING COMMITS below). | |
1b1dce4b | 355 | |
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356 | -p:: |
357 | --preserve-merges:: | |
f8cca019 | 358 | Instead of ignoring merges, try to recreate them. |
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359 | + |
360 | This uses the `--interactive` machinery internally, but combining it | |
361 | with the `--interactive` option explicitly is generally not a good | |
362 | idea unless you know what you are doing (see BUGS below). | |
363 | ||
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364 | -x <cmd>:: |
365 | --exec <cmd>:: | |
366 | Append "exec <cmd>" after each line creating a commit in the | |
367 | final history. <cmd> will be interpreted as one or more shell | |
368 | commands. | |
369 | + | |
370 | This option can only be used with the `--interactive` option | |
371 | (see INTERACTIVE MODE below). | |
372 | + | |
373 | You may execute several commands by either using one instance of `--exec` | |
374 | with several commands: | |
375 | + | |
376 | git rebase -i --exec "cmd1 && cmd2 && ..." | |
377 | + | |
378 | or by giving more than one `--exec`: | |
379 | + | |
380 | git rebase -i --exec "cmd1" --exec "cmd2" --exec ... | |
381 | + | |
382 | If `--autosquash` is used, "exec" lines will not be appended for | |
383 | the intermediate commits, and will only appear at the end of each | |
384 | squash/fixup series. | |
f09c9b8c | 385 | |
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386 | --root:: |
387 | Rebase all commits reachable from <branch>, instead of | |
388 | limiting them with an <upstream>. This allows you to rebase | |
df5df20c | 389 | the root commit(s) on a branch. When used with --onto, it |
be496621 | 390 | will skip changes already contained in <newbase> (instead of |
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391 | <upstream>) whereas without --onto it will operate on every change. |
392 | When used together with both --onto and --preserve-merges, | |
393 | 'all' root commits will be rewritten to have <newbase> as parent | |
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394 | instead. |
395 | ||
f59baa50 | 396 | --autosquash:: |
dd1e5b31 | 397 | --no-autosquash:: |
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398 | When the commit log message begins with "squash! ..." (or |
399 | "fixup! ..."), and there is a commit whose title begins with | |
400 | the same ..., automatically modify the todo list of rebase -i | |
42cfcd20 | 401 | so that the commit marked for squashing comes right after the |
f59baa50 | 402 | commit to be modified, and change the action of the moved |
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403 | commit from `pick` to `squash` (or `fixup`). Ignores subsequent |
404 | "fixup! " or "squash! " after the first, in case you referred to an | |
405 | earlier fixup/squash with `git commit --fixup/--squash`. | |
f59baa50 | 406 | + |
b4995494 | 407 | This option is only valid when the '--interactive' option is used. |
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408 | + |
409 | If the '--autosquash' option is enabled by default using the | |
410 | configuration variable `rebase.autosquash`, this option can be | |
411 | used to override and disable this setting. | |
b4995494 | 412 | |
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413 | --[no-]autostash:: |
414 | Automatically create a temporary stash before the operation | |
415 | begins, and apply it after the operation ends. This means | |
416 | that you can run rebase on a dirty worktree. However, use | |
417 | with care: the final stash application after a successful | |
418 | rebase might result in non-trivial conflicts. | |
419 | ||
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420 | --no-ff:: |
421 | With --interactive, cherry-pick all rebased commits instead of | |
422 | fast-forwarding over the unchanged ones. This ensures that the | |
423 | entire history of the rebased branch is composed of new commits. | |
424 | + | |
425 | Without --interactive, this is a synonym for --force-rebase. | |
426 | + | |
427 | You may find this helpful after reverting a topic branch merge, as this option | |
428 | recreates the topic branch with fresh commits so it can be remerged | |
429 | successfully without needing to "revert the reversion" (see the | |
d5ff3b4b | 430 | link:howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.html[revert-a-faulty-merge How-To] for details). |
f59baa50 | 431 | |
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432 | include::merge-strategies.txt[] |
433 | ||
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434 | NOTES |
435 | ----- | |
90d1c08e | 436 | |
0b444cdb | 437 | You should understand the implications of using 'git rebase' on a |
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438 | repository that you share. See also RECOVERING FROM UPSTREAM REBASE |
439 | below. | |
031321c6 | 440 | |
467c0197 | 441 | When the git-rebase command is run, it will first execute a "pre-rebase" |
031321c6 SE |
442 | hook if one exists. You can use this hook to do sanity checks and |
443 | reject the rebase if it isn't appropriate. Please see the template | |
444 | pre-rebase hook script for an example. | |
445 | ||
702088af | 446 | Upon completion, <branch> will be the current branch. |
031321c6 | 447 | |
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448 | INTERACTIVE MODE |
449 | ---------------- | |
450 | ||
451 | Rebasing interactively means that you have a chance to edit the commits | |
452 | which are rebased. You can reorder the commits, and you can | |
453 | remove them (weeding out bad or otherwise unwanted patches). | |
454 | ||
455 | The interactive mode is meant for this type of workflow: | |
456 | ||
457 | 1. have a wonderful idea | |
458 | 2. hack on the code | |
459 | 3. prepare a series for submission | |
460 | 4. submit | |
461 | ||
462 | where point 2. consists of several instances of | |
463 | ||
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464 | a) regular use |
465 | ||
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466 | 1. finish something worthy of a commit |
467 | 2. commit | |
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468 | |
469 | b) independent fixup | |
470 | ||
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471 | 1. realize that something does not work |
472 | 2. fix that | |
473 | 3. commit it | |
474 | ||
475 | Sometimes the thing fixed in b.2. cannot be amended to the not-quite | |
476 | perfect commit it fixes, because that commit is buried deeply in a | |
477 | patch series. That is exactly what interactive rebase is for: use it | |
478 | after plenty of "a"s and "b"s, by rearranging and editing | |
479 | commits, and squashing multiple commits into one. | |
480 | ||
481 | Start it with the last commit you want to retain as-is: | |
482 | ||
483 | git rebase -i <after-this-commit> | |
484 | ||
485 | An editor will be fired up with all the commits in your current branch | |
486 | (ignoring merge commits), which come after the given commit. You can | |
487 | reorder the commits in this list to your heart's content, and you can | |
488 | remove them. The list looks more or less like this: | |
489 | ||
490 | ------------------------------------------- | |
491 | pick deadbee The oneline of this commit | |
492 | pick fa1afe1 The oneline of the next commit | |
493 | ... | |
494 | ------------------------------------------- | |
495 | ||
0b444cdb | 496 | The oneline descriptions are purely for your pleasure; 'git rebase' will |
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497 | not look at them but at the commit names ("deadbee" and "fa1afe1" in this |
498 | example), so do not delete or edit the names. | |
499 | ||
500 | By replacing the command "pick" with the command "edit", you can tell | |
0b444cdb | 501 | 'git rebase' to stop after applying that commit, so that you can edit |
1b1dce4b JS |
502 | the files and/or the commit message, amend the commit, and continue |
503 | rebasing. | |
504 | ||
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505 | If you just want to edit the commit message for a commit, replace the |
506 | command "pick" with the command "reword". | |
507 | ||
1b1dce4b | 508 | If you want to fold two or more commits into one, replace the command |
0205e72f MH |
509 | "pick" for the second and subsequent commits with "squash" or "fixup". |
510 | If the commits had different authors, the folded commit will be | |
511 | attributed to the author of the first commit. The suggested commit | |
512 | message for the folded commit is the concatenation of the commit | |
513 | messages of the first commit and of those with the "squash" command, | |
514 | but omits the commit messages of commits with the "fixup" command. | |
1b1dce4b | 515 | |
0b444cdb | 516 | 'git rebase' will stop when "pick" has been replaced with "edit" or |
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517 | when a command fails due to merge errors. When you are done editing |
518 | and/or resolving conflicts you can continue with `git rebase --continue`. | |
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519 | |
520 | For example, if you want to reorder the last 5 commits, such that what | |
521 | was HEAD~4 becomes the new HEAD. To achieve that, you would call | |
0b444cdb | 522 | 'git rebase' like this: |
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523 | |
524 | ---------------------- | |
525 | $ git rebase -i HEAD~5 | |
526 | ---------------------- | |
527 | ||
528 | And move the first patch to the end of the list. | |
529 | ||
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530 | You might want to preserve merges, if you have a history like this: |
531 | ||
532 | ------------------ | |
533 | X | |
534 | \ | |
535 | A---M---B | |
536 | / | |
537 | ---o---O---P---Q | |
538 | ------------------ | |
539 | ||
540 | Suppose you want to rebase the side branch starting at "A" to "Q". Make | |
541 | sure that the current HEAD is "B", and call | |
542 | ||
543 | ----------------------------- | |
544 | $ git rebase -i -p --onto Q O | |
545 | ----------------------------- | |
546 | ||
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547 | Reordering and editing commits usually creates untested intermediate |
548 | steps. You may want to check that your history editing did not break | |
549 | anything by running a test, or at least recompiling at intermediate | |
550 | points in history by using the "exec" command (shortcut "x"). You may | |
551 | do so by creating a todo list like this one: | |
552 | ||
553 | ------------------------------------------- | |
554 | pick deadbee Implement feature XXX | |
555 | fixup f1a5c00 Fix to feature XXX | |
556 | exec make | |
557 | pick c0ffeee The oneline of the next commit | |
558 | edit deadbab The oneline of the commit after | |
559 | exec cd subdir; make test | |
560 | ... | |
561 | ------------------------------------------- | |
562 | ||
563 | The interactive rebase will stop when a command fails (i.e. exits with | |
564 | non-0 status) to give you an opportunity to fix the problem. You can | |
565 | continue with `git rebase --continue`. | |
566 | ||
567 | The "exec" command launches the command in a shell (the one specified | |
568 | in `$SHELL`, or the default shell if `$SHELL` is not set), so you can | |
569 | use shell features (like "cd", ">", ";" ...). The command is run from | |
570 | the root of the working tree. | |
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572 | ---------------------------------- |
573 | $ git rebase -i --exec "make test" | |
574 | ---------------------------------- | |
575 | ||
576 | This command lets you check that intermediate commits are compilable. | |
577 | The todo list becomes like that: | |
578 | ||
579 | -------------------- | |
580 | pick 5928aea one | |
581 | exec make test | |
582 | pick 04d0fda two | |
583 | exec make test | |
584 | pick ba46169 three | |
585 | exec make test | |
586 | pick f4593f9 four | |
587 | exec make test | |
588 | -------------------- | |
589 | ||
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590 | SPLITTING COMMITS |
591 | ----------------- | |
592 | ||
593 | In interactive mode, you can mark commits with the action "edit". However, | |
0b444cdb | 594 | this does not necessarily mean that 'git rebase' expects the result of this |
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595 | edit to be exactly one commit. Indeed, you can undo the commit, or you can |
596 | add other commits. This can be used to split a commit into two: | |
597 | ||
483bc4f0 | 598 | - Start an interactive rebase with `git rebase -i <commit>^`, where |
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599 | <commit> is the commit you want to split. In fact, any commit range |
600 | will do, as long as it contains that commit. | |
601 | ||
602 | - Mark the commit you want to split with the action "edit". | |
603 | ||
483bc4f0 | 604 | - When it comes to editing that commit, execute `git reset HEAD^`. The |
f0fd889d JS |
605 | effect is that the HEAD is rewound by one, and the index follows suit. |
606 | However, the working tree stays the same. | |
607 | ||
608 | - Now add the changes to the index that you want to have in the first | |
483bc4f0 | 609 | commit. You can use `git add` (possibly interactively) or |
0b444cdb | 610 | 'git gui' (or both) to do that. |
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611 | |
612 | - Commit the now-current index with whatever commit message is appropriate | |
613 | now. | |
614 | ||
615 | - Repeat the last two steps until your working tree is clean. | |
616 | ||
483bc4f0 | 617 | - Continue the rebase with `git rebase --continue`. |
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618 | |
619 | If you are not absolutely sure that the intermediate revisions are | |
620 | consistent (they compile, pass the testsuite, etc.) you should use | |
0b444cdb | 621 | 'git stash' to stash away the not-yet-committed changes |
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622 | after each commit, test, and amend the commit if fixes are necessary. |
623 | ||
624 | ||
90d1c08e TR |
625 | RECOVERING FROM UPSTREAM REBASE |
626 | ------------------------------- | |
627 | ||
628 | Rebasing (or any other form of rewriting) a branch that others have | |
629 | based work on is a bad idea: anyone downstream of it is forced to | |
630 | manually fix their history. This section explains how to do the fix | |
631 | from the downstream's point of view. The real fix, however, would be | |
632 | to avoid rebasing the upstream in the first place. | |
633 | ||
634 | To illustrate, suppose you are in a situation where someone develops a | |
635 | 'subsystem' branch, and you are working on a 'topic' that is dependent | |
636 | on this 'subsystem'. You might end up with a history like the | |
637 | following: | |
638 | ||
639 | ------------ | |
640 | o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o master | |
641 | \ | |
642 | o---o---o---o---o subsystem | |
643 | \ | |
644 | *---*---* topic | |
645 | ------------ | |
646 | ||
647 | If 'subsystem' is rebased against 'master', the following happens: | |
648 | ||
649 | ------------ | |
650 | o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o master | |
651 | \ \ | |
652 | o---o---o---o---o o'--o'--o'--o'--o' subsystem | |
653 | \ | |
654 | *---*---* topic | |
655 | ------------ | |
656 | ||
657 | If you now continue development as usual, and eventually merge 'topic' | |
658 | to 'subsystem', the commits from 'subsystem' will remain duplicated forever: | |
659 | ||
660 | ------------ | |
661 | o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o master | |
662 | \ \ | |
663 | o---o---o---o---o o'--o'--o'--o'--o'--M subsystem | |
664 | \ / | |
665 | *---*---*-..........-*--* topic | |
666 | ------------ | |
667 | ||
668 | Such duplicates are generally frowned upon because they clutter up | |
669 | history, making it harder to follow. To clean things up, you need to | |
670 | transplant the commits on 'topic' to the new 'subsystem' tip, i.e., | |
671 | rebase 'topic'. This becomes a ripple effect: anyone downstream from | |
672 | 'topic' is forced to rebase too, and so on! | |
673 | ||
674 | There are two kinds of fixes, discussed in the following subsections: | |
675 | ||
676 | Easy case: The changes are literally the same.:: | |
677 | ||
678 | This happens if the 'subsystem' rebase was a simple rebase and | |
679 | had no conflicts. | |
680 | ||
681 | Hard case: The changes are not the same.:: | |
682 | ||
683 | This happens if the 'subsystem' rebase had conflicts, or used | |
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684 | `--interactive` to omit, edit, squash, or fixup commits; or |
685 | if the upstream used one of `commit --amend`, `reset`, or | |
90d1c08e TR |
686 | `filter-branch`. |
687 | ||
688 | ||
689 | The easy case | |
690 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | |
691 | ||
692 | Only works if the changes (patch IDs based on the diff contents) on | |
693 | 'subsystem' are literally the same before and after the rebase | |
694 | 'subsystem' did. | |
695 | ||
0b444cdb | 696 | In that case, the fix is easy because 'git rebase' knows to skip |
90d1c08e TR |
697 | changes that are already present in the new upstream. So if you say |
698 | (assuming you're on 'topic') | |
699 | ------------ | |
700 | $ git rebase subsystem | |
701 | ------------ | |
702 | you will end up with the fixed history | |
703 | ------------ | |
704 | o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o master | |
705 | \ | |
706 | o'--o'--o'--o'--o' subsystem | |
707 | \ | |
708 | *---*---* topic | |
709 | ------------ | |
710 | ||
711 | ||
712 | The hard case | |
713 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | |
714 | ||
715 | Things get more complicated if the 'subsystem' changes do not exactly | |
716 | correspond to the ones before the rebase. | |
717 | ||
718 | NOTE: While an "easy case recovery" sometimes appears to be successful | |
719 | even in the hard case, it may have unintended consequences. For | |
720 | example, a commit that was removed via `git rebase | |
6cf378f0 | 721 | --interactive` will be **resurrected**! |
90d1c08e | 722 | |
0b444cdb | 723 | The idea is to manually tell 'git rebase' "where the old 'subsystem' |
90d1c08e TR |
724 | ended and your 'topic' began", that is, what the old merge-base |
725 | between them was. You will have to find a way to name the last commit | |
726 | of the old 'subsystem', for example: | |
727 | ||
0b444cdb | 728 | * With the 'subsystem' reflog: after 'git fetch', the old tip of |
6cf378f0 | 729 | 'subsystem' is at `subsystem@{1}`. Subsequent fetches will |
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730 | increase the number. (See linkgit:git-reflog[1].) |
731 | ||
732 | * Relative to the tip of 'topic': knowing that your 'topic' has three | |
733 | commits, the old tip of 'subsystem' must be `topic~3`. | |
734 | ||
735 | You can then transplant the old `subsystem..topic` to the new tip by | |
736 | saying (for the reflog case, and assuming you are on 'topic' already): | |
737 | ------------ | |
738 | $ git rebase --onto subsystem subsystem@{1} | |
739 | ------------ | |
740 | ||
741 | The ripple effect of a "hard case" recovery is especially bad: | |
742 | 'everyone' downstream from 'topic' will now have to perform a "hard | |
743 | case" recovery too! | |
744 | ||
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745 | BUGS |
746 | ---- | |
747 | The todo list presented by `--preserve-merges --interactive` does not | |
748 | represent the topology of the revision graph. Editing commits and | |
749 | rewording their commit messages should work fine, but attempts to | |
750 | reorder commits tend to produce counterintuitive results. | |
751 | ||
752 | For example, an attempt to rearrange | |
753 | ------------ | |
754 | 1 --- 2 --- 3 --- 4 --- 5 | |
755 | ------------ | |
756 | to | |
757 | ------------ | |
758 | 1 --- 2 --- 4 --- 3 --- 5 | |
759 | ------------ | |
760 | by moving the "pick 4" line will result in the following history: | |
761 | ------------ | |
762 | 3 | |
763 | / | |
764 | 1 --- 2 --- 4 --- 5 | |
765 | ------------ | |
766 | ||
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767 | GIT |
768 | --- | |
9e1f0a85 | 769 | Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |