Have you ever used git cherry-pick? Git rebase is if you were loop over each commit (bottom to top) and run `git cherry-pick` on each commit separately. If you

Have you ever used git cherry-pick? Git rebase is if you were loop over each commit (bottom to top) and run `git cherry-pick` on each commit separately. If you haven't used git cherry-pick, then it is basically a shortcut for `git show $REF | git apply -`, where the short cut is the simplest form of using git, you have a patch (via git show) and you want to apply it to your local checkout.