[TIL] git: interactive rebase

Thanks P for sharing this.

Often referred to as the "Swiss Army Knife of Git", in broad terms, interactive rebase is used to rewrite the commit history (such as edit, delete, and squash).

In our case, we needed to delete some commits in feature-branch-B, which were originally brought over from feature-branch-A. feature-branch-A ended up being discarded, and now we needed to delete those commits, so that they wouldn't be included when merging feature-branch-B to main.

TIL how to perform a git interactive rebase:

1. Make sure main is updated
2. git checkout feature-branch-B
3. git rebase -i main: editor pops up with all commits listed: remove the lines (representing commits) you don't want (or squash them, change commit message, etc.)
4. git push origin +feature-branch-B to force push the new shiny commit history