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Agreed - I completely misunderstood this at first because “rewind and rebase onto” sounds like “take my work from ‘add_patrick’, add all those commits “onto” ‘master’ (which doesn’t happen & wouldn’t really make sense) before moving the divergence point & continuing on the current branch.

The key point to understand is that you get all new commits from ‘master’ so your current branch is up to date with it (kinda like a git pull), then reapply the commits from ‘add_patrick’ again from that new point of divergence from master, but still on ‘add_patrick’ itself.

That confusion on my part aside, I found this to be a fantastic overview! Thanks!