Purpose:
Interactively rebase your current branch onto main
, keeping the original base commit (i.e. not rebasing onto main
directly).
Use Case:
Useful when you've branched off a long-lived feature branch and want to clean up your commits without changing the original base. Afterwards you will be able to rebase one clean commit interactively onto main without going through each commit individually using git rebase -i main
.
What it does:
- Opens an interactive rebase UI.
- Keeps your branch's base intact (no rebasing onto
main
). - Lets you squash, reorder, edit, or drop commits.
Info
This is not the same as
git rebase -i main
, which would rebase your branch ontomain
, changing its base.
Example:
git rebase -i --keep-base main
Posted by Felix Eschey to makandra dev (2025-04-14 06:52)