How do you rebase the current branch s changes on top of changes being merged in

Question

Okay  If I m on a branch  say working   and I want to merge in the changes from another branch  say master   then I run the command git-merge master while on the working branch  and the changes get merged in without rebasing the history at all  If I run git-rebase master  then the changes in master are rebased to be put on the top of my working branch  But what if I want to merge in the changes from master but rebase my changes in working to be on top  How do I do that  Can it be done   I could run git-rebase working on my master branch to put my changes on top in the master branch  but I d like to be able to do that in my working branch  and I have no idea how  The closest that I can think of doing is creating a new branch from master and then rebase working s changes on top of that  but then I d have a new branch instead of altering the working branch

User · Accepted Answer

You ve got what rebase does backwards  git rebase master does what you re asking for     takes the changes on the current branch  since its divergence from master  and replays them on top of master  then sets the head of the current branch to be the head of that new history  It doesn t replay the changes from master on top of the current branch

User · Answer

Another way to look at it is to consider git rebase master as      Rebase the current branch on top of master   Here    master  is the upstream branch  and that explain why  during a rebase  ours and theirs are reversed

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