Re: git fetch,git merge and git rebase

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 11, 2011, 12:32 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTinsBz0Yi5XXYUcaJMTvkjuhtNjotx0VWRFcKX3d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4D5464E7.2010407@gmail.com>

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 12:21 AM, Neal Kreitzinger <nkreitzinger@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 2/9/2011 11:29 PM, Akash wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am new to git .Can someone explain in simple terms what git fetch,git
>> merge and git rebase do?..I tried googling but was very confused after
>> going
>> thro it.
>>
>> Also, can someone prescribe a link which explains git in detail right from
>> scratch.
>>
>>
> another definition of git-rebase:
>
> git-rebase:  the MOST DANGEROUS command in git.  you can easily DESTROY your
> repo if you don't know what you're doing!  Until you get the hang of it,
> always make a copy of the before-image of the branch your rebasing
> (mybranch) by doing a "git checkout mybranch" and then "git branch
> copy-of-mybranch".  Then if you destroy mybranch you can recover it from
> copy-of-mybranch.

What about 'git rebase --hard', or 'git branch -D'? In all cases you can recover by using the reflog.

-- 
Felipe Contreras