https://github.com/blond/git-remote-rebase
Rebase remote branch
https://github.com/blond/git-remote-rebase
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Rebase remote branch
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/blond/git-remote-rebase
- Owner: blond
- License: mit
- Created: 2016-02-23T12:07:06.000Z (over 10 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2016-02-23T13:07:25.000Z (over 10 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-04-09T03:16:22.937Z (over 1 year ago)
- Size: 1.95 KB
- Stars: 2
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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git-remote-rebase
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Intro
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When you want to merge a PR, you click the "Merge Pull Request" button. When you click that button, GitHub will run the merge command with the --no-ff option ([source](https://help.github.com/articles/merging-a-pull-request/)). What this means is you get an additional commit in your git history (even if it's not needed).
This gives you the ability to easily rebase and perform [a fast forward merge](http://ariya.ofilabs.com/2013/09/fast-forward-git-merge.html).
The problem
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When not doing a fast forward merge, your git history looks like this:
Chaos. This makes it pretty difficult to figure out what code is where and when and how it got there.
When you rebase and only do fast forward merges, you get a git history that looks like this:
A nice, clean, straight line. This makes it sooooo much nicer!
Unfortunately, GitHub is silent on whether it will ever allow fast-forward merges for merges by default. So I created this to do it for you!
Install
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```
$ npm install --save git-remote-rebase
```
License
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MIT © [Andrew Abramov](https://github.com/blond)