--onto Starting point at which to create the new commits. If the --onto option is not specified, the starting point is . May be any valid commit, and not just an existing branch name. As a special case, you may use "A...B" as a shortcut for the merge base of A and B if there is exactly one merge base. You can leave out at most one of A and B, in which case it defaults to HEAD. --keep-base Set the starting point at which to create the new commits to the merge base of . Running git rebase --keep-base is equivalent to running git rebase --onto …​ . This option is useful in the case where one is developing a feature on top of an upstream branch. While the feature is being worked on, the upstream branch may advance and it may not be the best idea to keep rebasing on top of the upstream but to keep the base commit as-is. Although both this option and --fork-point find the merge base between and , this option uses the merge base as the starting point on which new commits will be created, whereas --fork-point uses the merge base to determine the set of commits which will be rebased. See also INCOMPATIBLE OPTIONS below. Upstream branch to compare against. May be any valid commit, not just an existing branch name. Defaults to the configured upstream for the current branch. Working branch; defaults to HEAD. --continue Restart the rebasing process after having resolved a merge conflict. --abort Abort the rebase operation and reset HEAD to the original branch. If was provided when the rebase operation was started, then HEAD will be reset to . Otherwise HEAD will be reset to where it was when the rebase operation was started. --quit Abort the rebase operation but HEAD is not reset back to the original branch. The index and working tree are also left unchanged as a result. If a temporary stash entry was created using --autostash, it will be saved to the stash list. --apply Use applying strategies to rebase (calling git-am internally). This option may become a no-op in the future once the merge backend handles everything the apply one does. See also INCOMPATIBLE OPTIONS below. --empty={drop,keep,ask} How to handle commits that are not empty to start and are not clean cherry-picks of any upstream commit, but which become empty after rebasing (because they contain a subset of already upstream changes). With drop (the default), commits that become empty are dropped. With keep, such commits are kept. With ask (implied by --interactive), the rebase will halt when an empty commit is applied allowing you to choose whether to drop it, edit files more, or just commit the empty changes. Other options, like --exec, will use the default of drop unless -i/--interactive is explicitly specified. Note that commits which start empty are kept (unless --no-keep-empty is specified), and commits which are clean cherry-picks (as determined by git log --cherry-mark ...) are detected and dropped as a preliminary step (unless --reapply-cherry-picks is passed). See also INCOMPATIBLE OPTIONS below. --no-keep-empty --keep-empty Do not keep commits that start empty before the rebase (i.e. that do not change anything from its parent) in the result. The default is to keep commits which start empty, since creating such commits requires passing the --allow-empty override flag to git commit, signifying that a user is very intentionally creating such a commit and thus wants to keep it. Usage of this flag will probably be rare, since you can get rid of commits that start empty by just firing up an interactive rebase and removing the lines corresponding to the commits you don’t want. This flag exists as a convenient shortcut, such as for cases where external tools generate many empty commits and you want them all removed. For commits which do not start empty but become empty after rebasing, see the --empty flag. See also INCOMPATIBLE OPTIONS below. --reapply-cherry-picks --no-reapply-cherry-picks Reapply all clean cherry-picks of any upstream commit instead of preemptively dropping them. (If these commits then become empty after rebasing, because they contain a subset of already upstream changes, the behavior towards them is controlled by the --empty flag.) By default (or if --no-reapply-cherry-picks is given), these commits will be automatically dropped. Because this necessitates reading all upstream commits, this can be expensive in repos with a large number of upstream commits that need to be read. When using the merge backend, warnings will be issued for each dropped commit (unless --quiet is given). Advice will also be issued unless advice.skippedCherryPicks is set to false (see git-config[1]). --reapply-cherry-picks allows rebase to forgo reading all upstream commits, potentially improving performance. See also INCOMPATIBLE OPTIONS below. --allow-empty-message No-op. Rebasing commits with an empty message used to fail and this option would override that behavior, allowing commits with empty messages to be rebased. Now commits with an empty message do not cause rebasing to halt. See also INCOMPATIBLE OPTIONS below. --skip Restart the rebasing process by skipping the current patch. --edit-todo Edit the todo list during an interactive rebase. --show-current-patch Show the current patch in an interactive rebase or when rebase is stopped because of conflicts. This is the equivalent of git show REBASE_HEAD. -m --merge Using merging strategies to rebase (default). Note that a rebase merge works by replaying each commit from the working branch on top of the branch. Because of this, when a merge conflict happens, the side reported as ours is the so-far rebased series, starting with , and theirs is the working branch. In other words, the sides are swapped. See also INCOMPATIBLE OPTIONS below. -s --strategy= Use the given merge strategy, instead of the default ort. This implies --merge. Because git rebase replays each commit from the working branch on top of the branch using the given strategy, using the ours strategy simply empties all patches from the , which makes little sense. See also INCOMPATIBLE OPTIONS below. -X --strategy-option= Pass the through to the merge strategy. This implies --merge and, if no strategy has been specified, -s ort. Note the reversal of ours and theirs as noted above for the -m option. See also INCOMPATIBLE OPTIONS below. --rerere-autoupdate --no-rerere-autoupdate Allow the rerere mechanism to update the index with the result of auto-conflict resolution if possible. -S[] --gpg-sign[=] --no-gpg-sign GPG-sign commits. The keyid argument is optional and defaults to the committer identity; if specified, it must be stuck to the option without a space. --no-gpg-sign is useful to countermand both commit.gpgSign configuration variable, and earlier --gpg-sign. -q --quiet Be quiet. Implies --no-stat. -v --verbose Be verbose. Implies --stat. --stat Show a diffstat of what changed upstream since the last rebase. The diffstat is also controlled by the configuration option rebase.stat. -n --no-stat Do not show a diffstat as part of the rebase process. --no-verify This option bypasses the pre-rebase hook. See also githooks[5]. --verify Allows the pre-rebase hook to run, which is the default. This option can be used to override --no-verify. See also githooks[5]. -C Ensure at least lines of surrounding context match before and after each change. When fewer lines of surrounding context exist they all must match. By default no context is ever ignored. Implies --apply. See also INCOMPATIBLE OPTIONS below. --no-ff --force-rebase -f Individually replay all rebased commits instead of fast-forwarding over the unchanged ones. This ensures that the entire history of the rebased branch is composed of new commits. You may find this helpful after reverting a topic branch merge, as this option recreates the topic branch with fresh commits so it can be remerged successfully without needing to "revert the reversion" (see the revert-a-faulty-merge How-To for details). --fork-point --no-fork-point Use reflog to find a better common ancestor between and when calculating which commits have been introduced by . When --fork-point is active, fork_point will be used instead of to calculate the set of commits to rebase, where fork_point is the result of git merge-base --fork-point command (see git-merge-base[1]). If fork_point ends up being empty, the will be used as a fallback. If is given on the command line, then the default is --no-fork-point, otherwise the default is --fork-point. See also rebase.forkpoint in git-config[1]. If your branch was based on but was rewound and your branch contains commits which were dropped, this option can be used with --keep-base in order to drop those commits from your branch. See also INCOMPATIBLE OPTIONS below. --ignore-whitespace Ignore whitespace differences when trying to reconcile differences. Currently, each backend implements an approximation of this behavior: apply backend: When applying a patch, ignore changes in whitespace in context lines. Unfortunately, this means that if the "old" lines being replaced by the patch differ only in whitespace from the existing file, you will get a merge conflict instead of a successful patch application. merge backend: Treat lines with only whitespace changes as unchanged when merging. Unfortunately, this means that any patch hunks that were intended to modify whitespace and nothing else will be dropped, even if the other side had no changes that conflicted. --whitespace=