This guide walks you through managing a hotfix in Git using the Git Fork GUI. A hotfix is an urgent update made to fix bugs in the production codebase. We’ll use a Gitflow-inspired process to handle the hotfix efficiently without touching the command line.
This guide provides a detailed walkthrough of the Git Rebase command using Git Fork, a visual Git client. Rebasing is one of Git’s two key methods for integrating changes between branches, with the other being git merge. While merges create a new commit that ties together branches, rebasing allows you to apply changes from one branch on top of another, effectively rewriting commit history in a cleaner, linear fashion..