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Git Concepts and Commands
Do You Know the Difference Between Git Merge and Git Rebase?
Know the differences between git rebase and git merge and their workflow.

A lot of software developers and programmers get confused with git merge
and git rebase
. So I thought of clearing this doubt thru the medium of this article. We’ll see their differences and when to use them.
What Is Git Merge and Git Rebase?
git rebase
does the same job as a git merge
that is merging the changes from one branch to another branch. The difference is that they do it very differently.
Consider you are working on one of the features of an application in the feature
branch and the git commit history has the following structure.

How to Merge the Master Branch to the Feature Branch Using git merge
?
git checkout feature
git merge master
The above merge process will create a new merge commit in the feature branch which will have a history…