Rebase

History and Importance of Commit Management Git’s commit management features were one of the core design principles when Linus Torvalds developed Git in 2005. The rebase feature existed from Git’s early versions, and when interactive rebase was introduced in Git 1.5 in 2007, it became a powerful tool for fine-grained editing of commit history. Commit history management is important because the Git log serves as documentation of a project’s change history. A well-organized history enables understanding of a project’s evolution through git log alone, allows clear comprehension of each commit’s intent when tracking bugs with git bisect, and helps new team members quickly grasp the codebase’s history when joining a project. ...