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jakjak123 on May 4, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Resistance Against Git Merge Hell (2015)

This would rewrite the history for production. Not what you want to do

LegionMammal978 on May 4, 2024 [–]

The point, as I understand it, is that production has no meaningful history separate from main's history: it acts as a bare pointer, and rebasing it just fast-forwards it to later points in main's history.

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