One of the widest uses of the git rebase command is for reordering or combining commits. For this first approach, imagine you have to combine two different commits.
Suppose we erroneously added half a grape in the shoppingList.txt file, then the other half, but at the end we want to have only one commit for the entire grape; follow me with these steps.
Add a gr to the shopping list file:
[1] ~/grocery (master) $ echo -n "gr" >> shoppingList.txt
The -n option is for not adding a new line.
Cat the file to be sure:
[2] ~/grocery (master) $ cat shoppingList.txt banana apple orange peach gr
Now perform the first commit:
[3] ~/grocery (master) $ git commit -am "Add half a grape" [master edac12c] Add half a grape 1 file changed, ...
