A developer is on a feature branch that diverged from main last week. Meanwhile, main has received several urgent bug fixes pushed by teammates. The developer wants to incorporate those fixes into the feature branch, replaying the feature commits on top of the updated main branch without adding a merge commit. Which sequence of commands accomplishes this?
The correct approach is to first fetch the latest changes from the remote and then replay the feature branch commits on top of the updated main branch reference. Fetching updates your local copy of origin/main without switching branches, and the subsequent rebase command reapplies your commits in a clean linear order. Simply rebasing against the local main reference risks missing recent remote updates. A merge or default pull would introduce an extra merge commit, which the developer wants to avoid.
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