From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 01:15:15 GMT
Subject: Re: what is "rebase"?
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0511200214280.11653@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <86fyps8bl1.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>

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