[richsinn]

Nice explanation. When I was first learning git, the most intuitive explanation of git rebase were these three links (if read in order... these links were once published on Hacker News many moons ago):

(1) http://gitready.com/intermediate/2009/01/31/intro-to-rebase....

(2) http://gitready.com/advanced/2009/02/11/pull-with-rebase.htm...

(3) http://gitready.com/advanced/2009/03/20/reorder-commits-with... <~ talks about "interactive mode" with the -i option