To edit the commit message, switch toĮdit mode, edit the commit message, and save. All lines starting with # are ignored and not included in the commit.When squashing, Git outputs the commit message so you have a chance to edit it: Do the same for the remaining commits.Change the word pick to squash or fixup (or s or f).Move to the second commit in the list by using your keyboard arrows.Switch to Vim’s edit mode by pressing i.# Rebase 111111111111.222222222222 onto zzzzzzzzzzzz (5 commands) # Commands: # p, pick = use commit # r, reword = use commit, but edit the commit message # e, edit = use commit, but stop for amending # s, squash = use commit, but meld into previous commit # f, fixup = like 'squash' but keep only the previous Pick 555555555555 Revisions continue to build the concept part out

Pick 444444444444 Adds revisions from editorial Pick 222222222222 Update inbound link to this changed page Pick 111111111111 Second round of structural revisions In this example, the target branch is main: Open a terminal and change to your project.Įnsure you have the latest contents of the target branch.First create the branch otherfeature at the same commit as feature. git rebase and git reset are dangerous because it can wreak havoc for anyone else who is using the feature branch. Vim must be your text editor to follow these instructions. Warning: The following git commands will rewrite the history of the feature branch.You must do an interactive rebase from the command line. Use an interactive rebase when you want to specify how to handle each commit. GitLab schedules a rebase of the branch against the default branch and If the merge request is in a fork, the fork must allow commits.Permission to push to the source branch for the source project. You must have at least the Developer role for the source project.You can rebase a merge request from the GitLab UI. Git push origin my-branch -force-with-lease You can also specify a different remote repository While most rebases are performed against main, you can rebase against any otherīranch, such as release-15-3. The commits it imported from that branch: Git stacks the commits you have in your branch on top of all Git imports all the commits submitted to your target branch after you initially created.In Git, a rebase updates your branch with the contents of another branch.Ī rebase confirms that changes in your branch don’t conflict with /merge quick action ignored after /rebase.Unmergeable state after /rebase quick action.Rebase is the most important git command IMO, gets code writing to the level it should be, you can apply your changes wherever you want in whatever order.Īlways post diagrams like the above when asking a question. So you amended commit C and so commit D changed too (although its contents are the same) - issue git rebase -i -onto D' D B1. Note the -i is not strictly needed although if you run into conflicts it is much better to be in an interactive rebase while solving them (allows you to edit the commit message, while non interactive will just accept the resolution and march on, although much faster than the interactive one). (where C' is your amended commit) you just issue git rebase -i -onto C' C B1 where the C, C' are the SHAs of the commits (or temporary branch names you checkout on your commits) and they are excluded from the rebase. To understand what you do fire up gitk - so if you have: A - B - c - D B2 That's a case for git rebase -i -onto as pointed out. but if i could do it as part of a rebase it would be nicer (i think). So it might look something like: git rebase -i B1 HEAD~2Ĭurrently I do this by branching B1 into temp then cherry-picking the new commit from B2 onto it, erase B2 then move temp to B2. If I could get the B1 unique commits and a range of B2's commits in the interactive rebase prompt then i can tell git to discard the old version of the commit and use the new one from B1 in it's place all in one operation. Simply rebasing B1 into B2 will result in the original and the revised commit appearing in B2's history (and there will probably be some nasty merge conflicts). I want the revised the commit to replace the original commit. Now I need to update B2 with the revised commit from B1. changes are applied to B1 by way of an amend (not a new commit).code review finally happened and I had to fix something in B1.while waiting for code review I started a new feature by branching from B1.What I want to do is be presented with an interactive rebase file where i can arrange not only the commits from the remote branch but also a range of commits on the current branch beginning from the head. Kind of like combination of git rebase -i otherbranch and git rebase -i HEAD~2. I was wondering if there was a way to do an interactive rebase from one branch onto the current branch but not onto the head.

Rebase onto another branch