🤖:[ChatGPT4] When managing a shared codebase in a version control system like Git, developers use different methods to integrate changes from one branch into another. Two of the key strategies for integrating changes are merging and rebasing. We'll explore the strengths and reasons for choosing merge over rebase, while keeping in mind your guidance to analyze the issue step by step and from first principles.
Let's first recognize the fundamental aims of both methods:
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Merge: Incorporate the commits from one branch (feature branch) into another branch (mainline) by creating a new merge commit. This merge commit has two parent commits—one from each branch—and ties together the histories of both branches.
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Rebase: Transfer the commits from one branch on top of the commits in another branch, effectively re-writing the project history by creating copies of the original commits.