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Re: what is "rebase"?

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Nov 20, 2005, 01:15 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.63.0511200214280.11653@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
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Hi,
On Sun, 19 Nov 2005, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> Can someone point me to a simple explanation of what "rebase" is?
How about the definition in Documentation/glossary.txt?
> rebase::
>         To clean a branch by starting from the head of the main line of
>         development ("master"), and reapply the (possibly cherry-picked)
>         changes from that branch.

Hth, Dscho

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