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		rusk on Sept 18, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Git Commands Explained with Cats (2017) Rebase is just replaying the diff associated with each commit. It’s like a batch cherry-pick and that itself might be a conceptually more straightforward place to start.

grayclhn on Sept 18, 2021 [–]

This is great. IMO “replay” is a much better description than “copy.”

rusk on Sept 18, 2021 | [–]

Technically more appropriate than copy as a commit is immutably wedded to its history by the chain of hashes preceding it.

FYI replay is the term used in the git docs, which otherwise make little sense.

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