Interactive rebase a powerful tool for cleaning up messy history
Interactive rebase allows you to reorder, edit, combine or even delete commits during the rebasing process. This level of control can be incredibly powerful for cleaning up a messy history or preparing a branch for a pull request. To initiate an interactive rebase, you use the JIT rebase, I command followed by the commit onto which you want to rebase. This will open an editor listing all the commits that will be rebased along with instructions on how to manipulate them. You can then modify these instructions to perform various actions, such as reordering commits by changing their order in the list, squashing commits by changing the command from pick to squash, or editing commits by changing the command from pick to edit. Interactive Rebase provides a flexible and powerful way to fine-tune your commit history, but it's important to use it with caution, especially when working with shared branches.