Rebase Safely

Master Git rebase without losing work or causing team chaos.

When to Use

• Updating feature branch with latest main
• Cleaning up commit history before PR
• Squashing multiple commits into one
• Reordering or editing commits
• Fixing commit messages

The Golden Rule

NEVER rebase commits that have been pushed to a shared branch.

Rebasing rewrites history. If others have based work on those commits, you'll cause merge conflicts and confusion.