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Put my branch on top of the latest main

main has moved on and I want my branch to start from its latest commit.

The problem

main has moved on and I want my branch to start from its latest commit.

How the practice repository looked before

$ git status --short --branch
## feature
$ git log --oneline -5
2860aab Feature work
80ea2c9 Base

The fix

$ git rebase main
Rebasing (1/1)
Successfully rebased and updated refs/heads/feature.

Check the result

$ git log --oneline --graph
* 0288d3f Feature work
* aac33a8 Main moved on
* 80ea2c9 Base

Why this works

git rebase main replays your commits one by one on top of main. The result is a straight line. Your commits get new hashes because their parent changed.

If this is not quite your case

If a commit conflicts, Git stops. Fix the file, git add it and run git rebase --continue. To abandon the rebase and go back to how it was, run git rebase --abort. If the branch was already pushed, a rebased branch needs a force-push, and --force-with-lease is safer than --force because it refuses when someone else pushed meanwhile.

Be careful: Do not rebase a branch that other people are using. A merge is the safe choice for shared branches.

This is an independent guide. It is not connected with the Git project, GitHub, GitLab or any company named here. Every command below was run on 14 November 2026 with the real program (git version 2.56.0.windows.4) in a new empty practice repository; the output shown is what it printed. Facts about options were read in the official Git documentation on 14 November 2026.