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Rebase is just replaying the diff associated with each commit. It’s like a batch cherry-pick and that itself might be a conceptually more straightforward place

by rusk 5y ago

Rebase is just replaying the diff associated with each commit. It’s like a batch cherry-pick and that itself might be a conceptually more straightforward place to start.

grayclhn 5y ago
This is great. IMO “replay” is a much better description than “copy.”
- rusk 5y ago
  Technically more appropriate than copy as a commit is immutably wedded to its history by the chain of hashes preceding it. FYI replay is the term used in the git docs, which otherwise make little sense.