Complete Git Guide: Understand and Master Git and GitHub - Exploring Graphs and Commits in SourceTree

The video tutorial explains the differences between rebasing and merging in Git, focusing on how each affects commit history and timestamps. It demonstrates using Source Tree to visualize commit history and highlights the challenges of understanding commit origins after rebasing. The tutorial also delves into the logical order of commits and explores Git object details to explain date discrepancies. The main takeaway is the linear history created by rebasing, which can obscure the original branch structure.

Explain how the commit graph looks after rebasing compared to merging.

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What information can be lost when using rebasing instead of merging?

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Describe the significance of the 'merge commit' in Git.

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