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[Julia Evans] Meet the branch (programming.dev)
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[–] jnareb@programming.dev 4 points 10 months ago

Note that you can examine branch reflog to find where branch was forked from (1st image), or tell Git to examine it for you with git rebase --fork-point

[–] dudinax@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"git merge" is for more than merging with the base branch.

[–] dukk@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago

Same for rebase.