Glossary · Phase 11 · Professional practice

Rebase

Also written: rebasing

Replaying your commits on top of another branch, giving a straight history with new commit ids.

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The one rule: never rebase a branch other people have pulled.

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git bisect: A Git command that binary-searches history to find the commit that introduced a bug.
merge conflict: When two branches changed the same lines differently, so Git can't combine them without a person deciding.
pull request: A request to merge a branch, where the change is reviewed, discussed and checked before it joins the main branch.
three-way merge: Combining two branches by comparing each with their last shared commit, the merge base.
trunk-based development: A workflow where everyone merges small, short-lived branches into one main branch that is always deployable.

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