This document outlines the process of rebasing a feature branch (feature-branch-name) onto a release branch (release-branch-name) when the release branch has received new merges. This is a common scenario in collaborative development, and rebasing helps maintain a clean project history.
When you branch off of another branch (like release-branch-name), you create a separate line of development. As other pull requests (PRs) are merged into release-branch-name, the history of your feature-branch-name branch diverges. Rebasing helps in the following ways:
- Diverged History: Your
feature-branch-namebranch's history becomes different fromrelease-branch-nameas others merge their work. - Cleaner History: Rebasing creates a linear project history, making it appear as if you started your work after the latest changes were merged into
release-branch-name.