https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33942588/difference-between-rebase-master-and-rebase-onto-master-from-a-branch-deri
Bear with me for a while before I answer the question as asked. One the earlier answers is right but there are labeling and other relatively minor (but potentially confusing) issues, so I want to start with branch drawings and branch labels. Also, people coming from other systems, or maybe even just new to revision control and git, often think of branches as "lines of development" rather than "traces of history" (git implements them as the latter, rather than the former, so a commit is not necessarily on any specific "line of development").
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Bear with me for a while before I answer the question as asked. One the earlier answers is right but there are labeling and other relatively minor (but potentially confusing) issues, so I want to start with branch drawings and branch labels. Also, people coming from other systems, or maybe even just new to revision control and git, often think of branches as "lines of development" rather than "traces of history" (git implements them as the latter, rather than the former, so a commit is not necessarily on any specific "line of development").
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