Complete Git Guide: Understand and Master Git and GitHub - Introduction to Rebasing

The video introduces the concept of rebasing in version control, explaining it as an alternative way to merge branches. It highlights the advantage of rebasing in maintaining a linear history, as opposed to merging, which can create commits with multiple parents. However, it also points out the drawbacks, such as the rewriting of history and potential loss of some commits. The video concludes with a brief mention of the next lecture, which will cover merging and its differences from rebasing.

What is rebasing and how does it differ from merging?

What are the advantages of using rebasing?

In what way does rebasing keep the commit history linear?

How does rebasing affect the history of commits?

What are the drawbacks of rebasing as mentioned in the lecture?