Git Rebase Visualized

In this Git tutorial we look at how to perform a Git Rebase, when you might want to do so, and how the internal of Git look upon performing a Rebase. Compared to simply performing a merge a rebase will keep you history looking linear and make it appear as though the changes you made on a feature branch were actually made on the main branch and no merge took place at all.
Try it out for yourself with VisualGit!
visualgit.net

[@successfulpodcast]

Great job! You cleared up some confusion on git rebase.

[@Ashotofcode]

Excellent - Glad it helped! Cheers Mark

[@rahulyadu1326]

what is the software you used to visualize git history

[@Ashotofcode]

hiya - neo4j gives us the nice graph - I created a dotnet console app to scan the .git/objects folder and run git cat-file against the files - then call the neo4j API to add them in. Works well on simple git folders :-)

[@jakem3422]

@@Ashotofcode I would LOVE to play with this setup. Do you have the code a git repo somewhere?

[@Ashotofcode]

@@jakem3422 Open sourced it now yes :-) visualgit.net (has links to the repos too)

[@dRex002]

Yes, please share this tool! Thanks :)

[@Ashotofcode]

Working on it 🙂

[@Ashotofcode]

Open sourced it now :-) visualgit.net (has links to the repos too)

[@linearz]

I have cls alias for clear on my linux systems.