Compare the git log –graph output before and after the rebase of GitHub branches. Developers will notice how the commit history has gone from branched to linear. The image below also shows how commits ...

It has pretty diagrams and it proves that you can make git as enterprisey as Team Foundation Server. That was useful back in the day when people still needed to convince the pointy-hairs to adopt git.

Proceed with caution When a Git rebase occurs, the repository’s commit history is irreparably changed. After the rebase in our example, commits F and G are assigned brand new commit ids, and the old ...