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Asked: 2026-06-14T08:14:06+00:00

If someone is having difficulty rebasing their branch (such as it’s really far off

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If someone is having difficulty rebasing their branch (such as it’s really far off from where master is because they’ve been lazy about keeping up). Is it safe to check out their remote branch, rebase it for them (doing all of the manual updates by hand yourself) and the push it over on top of their remote branch?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Is it safe to check out their remote branch, rebase it for them (doing all of the manual updates by hand yourself) and the push it over on top of their remote branch?

    Yes and no: you would have to force the push, ie to publish a different history for their branch.
    So you would need to communicate that they have to reset their local branch to the new origin/abranch, and keep on working from there.

    git checkout abranch
git branch abranch_old # keep a pointer to the old history just in case
git reset --hard origin/abranch
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