Git Version Control Cookbook - Second Edition

How to do it...

We start by creating a local branch and then make two commits by performing the following steps; these are the commits that we want to rebase onto another branch:

1. Check out a new branch, rebaseExample, which tracks origin/stable-3.1:

$ git checkout -b rebaseExample --track origin/stable-3.1
Branch rebaseExample set up to track remote branch stable-3.1  from origin.
Switched to a new branch 'rebaseExample'

2. Make two commits on the rebaseExample branch, as follows:

$ echo "My Fishtank
    
Gravel, water, plants
Fish, pump, skeleton" > fishtank.txt
$ git add fishtank.txt
$ git commit -m "My brand new fishtank"
[rebaseExample 4b2c2ec] My brand new fishtank
  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
   create mode 100644 fishtank.txt
$ echo "mosquitos" ...