to rebase
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7.6
- verb
- /ˌriːˈbeɪs/
- Specialized
:
hacer rebase
- Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice both suffer from a legacy of ambivalent licensing, which they are addressing by rebasing the code.
Examples
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Do you worry about keeping a clean history, encouraging your users to rebase?
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For a company to keep a central repo of their expensive IP, it requires someone to babysit it so no idiot can rebase the history into oblivion.
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All those who used that commit have to rebase all their work to the new base of that commit.
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And you have groups working on a clearly limited area of the kernel, who rebase once their changes get accepted.
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You want to rebase and push those commits again?
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If you really wanted to preserve the original commits, you could probably work in one branch and then rebase onto another branch.
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If you send a pull request and the other one does a rebase, you have to prune out your copy and rebase everything you did on top of the changes to the other changes.
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Now the rewritten part gets accepted, but rebased, so history appears linear.
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In effect, both Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice have the same issue of rebasing the code.
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To fix the conflicts in the code, the developer had to rebase their changes onto the latest version of the repository.
How Significant
35
4.6
- Specialized
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7.6
107
2.9
9
3.6
317
2.7
28
3.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Rebase comes from re- 'again' and base 'starting point'. So, to rebase a branch or financial report is to move its starting point again onto a new version.