git rebase Replay your commits on top of another base

Moves a branch so it starts from a newer commit, creating a straight, tidy history. The interactive mode also lets you reorder, squash, reword or drop commits.

Synopsis

git rebase [OPTION]... [UPSTREAM]
git rebase -i BASE

Common options

Examples

git fetch origin
git rebase origin/main

git rebase -i HEAD~3

git add app.js
git rebase --continue

git rebase --abort

Notes

• Rebase rewrites commits, giving them new hashes. Do not rebase commits other people already have.
• After rebasing a branch you pushed earlier, push with git push --force-with-lease, which fails if someone else pushed in the meantime.
• If you get lost, git reflog shows where you were before the rebase.

See also

• git merge Combine another branch into the current one
• git cherry-pick Copy individual commits onto the current branch
• git reflog Recover lost commits from the local movement log
• git push Upload your commits to a remote
• git pull Fetch from a remote and update your branch

Last reviewed 2026-10-09.