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1. He fetches your revisions:
$ git fetch
2. He goes to the
new-web-interface
branch:
$ git checkout
new-web-interface
3. He updates the
new-web-interface
branch:
$ git rebase
origin/new-web-interface
Now he can inspect your new modifications and accept them (as in Recipe 10-8) or
ask for new improvements (as in Recipe 10-9). Because the leader created his local
new-web-interface
branch with
$ git checkout new-web-interface
command, the tracking was set up for the branch. As a consequence he can use:
$ git
rebase
while on
new-web-interface
to update this branch.
How It Works
The branch you use for contributions can be used by you and other members of your
team for a longer period of time. You can iteratively commit and ask for code review.
This can be repeated many times. The recipe explains how the leader can update his re-
pository with the latest changes in the
new-web-interface
branch.
Of course these same procedures:
• Appending new commits to a remote branch
• Downloading the most recent commits from remote branch
can be performed by every member. Thus you can use the
new-web-interface
branch as a way to collaborate with others while working on a given feature.
10-10. Rewriting history with $ git push -
f
Problem
You are a member of a team. You pushed your work to a remote branch named
new-
web-interface
. Your work was rejected many times. You were asked to make cor-
