Rebase

Rebasing is a process to reapply commits on top of another base trip. It is used to apply a sequence of commits from distinct branches into a final commit. It is an alternative to the git merge command. It is a linear process of merging.

In Git, the term rebase is referred to as the process of moving or combining a sequence of commits to a new base commit. Rebasing is very beneficial and it visualized the process in the environment of a feature branching workflow.

It is good to rebase your branch before merging it.

Generally, it is an alternative to the git merge command. Merge is always a forward-changing record. Comparatively, rebase is a compelling history rewriting tool in git. It merges the different commits one by one.

Suppose you have made three commits in your master branch and three in your other branch named test. If you merge this, then it will merge all commits at a time. But if you rebase it, then it will be merged in a linear manner. Consider the below image:

The golden rule of git rebase is to never use it on public branches.