Git Version Control Cookbook - Second Edition

How it works...

It works as you would expect! There is one thing to remember: when using the exec option, Git will check the work area for unstaged and staged changes. Consider the following command line:

 exec echo rainy_day > weather_main.txt exec echo sunny_day > weather_california.txt

If you were to have a line as illustrated in the preceding command, the first exec would be executed and you would then have an unstaged change in your work area. Git would complain and you would have to solve that before continuing with the next exec.

So, if you want to do something like this, you must create a single exec line that executes all the things you want. Besides this, the rebase functionality is fairly simple; it just tries to apply the changes ...