Rebase with origin/main

Overview

Fetches the latest origin/main, rebases the current branch onto it, and resolves every conflict that arises — one commit at a time — until the rebase completes cleanly.

Warning: Rebase Flips ours/theirs

During a rebase, git's labels are inverted from what you expect:

Label	Means
HEAD / ours (top of conflict)	origin/main — the base being rebased onto
theirs (bottom of conflict)	Your commit being replayed

Always resolve conflicts to preserve the intent of your commit while incorporating origin/main's context.

Workflow

1. Fetch & Start

git fetch origin
git rebase origin/main

If the output says Successfully rebased — done. No conflicts.

2. Detect Conflicts

git status

Look for lines with both modified, added by us, deleted by them, etc.

3. Resolve Each Conflicted File

For each conflicted file:

1. Read the file — find all conflict markers (<<<<<<<, =======, >>>>>>>)
2. Understand both sides:
   • Above ======= (HEAD) = origin/main's version
   • Below ======= = your commit's change
3. Resolve by editing the file to the correct merged result — no conflict markers left
4. Verify no conflict markers remain: grep -En "<<<<<<<|=======|>>>>>>>" <file>
5. Stage the resolved file: git add <file>

If a conflict is ambiguous — where preserving both sides isn't clear — stop and ask the user before resolving.

4. Continue

After all conflicts in the current commit are staged:

git rebase --continue

Git will either move to the next commit (go back to step 2) or report success.

5. Handle Edge Cases

Situation	Command
A commit becomes empty after resolution	git rebase --skip
You need to abort entirely	git rebase --abort
Binary file conflict	Show the user and ask which version to keep

6. Verify

After a clean rebase, confirm the branch looks correct:

git log --oneline origin/main..HEAD

7. Fix CI

After a successful rebase, run the full CI suite locally to catch any breakage introduced by the rebase:

pnpm lint && pnpm typecheck && pnpm test && pnpm build

If anything fails, follow the fixing-ci skill workflow starting from Step 2 (Fix Loop) through Step 3 (Verify All): diagnose each failure, fix the root cause, verify, and commit atomically. Do not proceed to push until all checks pass locally — the push is handled by Step 8 below with --force-with-lease.

8. Push

Force-push with lease (safe force-push — aborts if someone else pushed since your last fetch):

git push --force-with-lease

Conflict Resolution Principles

• Prefer explicit over clever — when in doubt, keep both changes and adjust for correctness
• Deletions on main win if you also deleted the same thing (skip your no-op)
• Your additions win unless they conflict with a semantic change in main (e.g., a rename)
• Never silently discard either side — if a resolution loses meaningful code, flag it to the user

Common Mistakes

Mistake	Fix
Leaving conflict markers in file	Grep for <<<<<<< before staging
Staging before fully reading the file	Read the full file first
Assuming ours = your branch	It's inverted in rebase — ours is origin/main
Continuing without reviewing log	Always run git log --oneline origin/main..HEAD after