Pulling In Changes During An Interactive Rebase

My standard workflow when doing feature development is to checkout a feature branch and commit changes as I go. When the feature is finished, I clean up the commit history with an interactive rebase and then integrate those changes with master.

I initiate the interactive rebase like this (while on the feature branch):

$ git rebase -i master

This allows me to squash, fixup, and delete commits that I've made since checking out this branch from master.

It is important to note that an another thing will happen seemingly behind the scenes. Any commits on master since the feature branch was checked out will be applied to the feature branch before the effects of the interactive rebase are applied.

If you want to strictly do an interactive rebase of the commits on the feature branch ignoring what is on master, then reference the commit you checked out from -- put another way, reference the commit before the first commit on this branch.

$ git rebase -i <sha-of-first-commit-on-this-branch>~

The tilde (~) will go back one commit from the specified commit sha.

See man git-rebase for more details.