ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Rebasing

Okay kiddo, so let's say you have a bunch of toy blocks and you've built a tower with them. But then someone else comes along and builds their own tower with their own toy blocks. Now you want to put your tower on top of their tower to make an even bigger tower.

Rebasing is kind of like that. It's a way to take the changes you've made in your own code and put them on top of someone else's code. This can happen when you're working on a project with other people and you all have your own versions of the code.

So let's say you've been working on a feature for the project while other people have been working on other features. When it's time to combine all the changes together, you might use a process called merging. But sometimes, merging can be tricky or cause problems.

That's where rebasing comes in. Instead of merging, you take your changes and apply them directly on top of the other person's code. This can make things easier and smoother because it keeps the code in a more linear and chronological order.

So just like you can put your toy tower on top of someone else's tower, you can rebase your changes on top of someone else's code tower to make a bigger tower of code.