Rebasing commits to another branch
To start with, we are going to perform a very simple rebase where we will introduce a new file, commit this file, make a change to it, and then commit it again so that we end up with 2 new commits.
Getting ready
Before we start, we need a repository to work in. You can use a previous clone of jgit, but to get a close to identical output from the example, you can clone the jgit repository.
The jgit repository can be cloned as follows:
$ git clone https://git.eclipse.org/r/jgit/jgit chapter4 $ cd chapter4
How to do it…
We start by creating a local branch and then make two commits by performing the following steps; these are the commits that we want to rebase onto another branch:
- Check out a new branch,
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