How to rebase local branch onto remote master

First fetch the new master from the upstream repository, then rebase your work branch on that:

git fetch origin            # Updates origin/master
git rebase origin/master    # Rebases current branch onto origin/master

Update: Please see Paul Draper's answer for a more concise way to do the same - recent Git versions provide a simpler way to do the equivalent of the above two commands.

git pull --rebase origin master

After committing changes to your branch, checkout master and pull it to get its latest changes from the repo:

git checkout master
git pull origin master

Then checkout your branch and rebase your changes on master:

git checkout RB
git rebase master

...or last two commands in one line:

git rebase master RB

When trying to push back to origin/RB, you'll probably get an error; if you're the only one working on RB, you can force push:

git push --force origin RB

...or as follows if you have git configured appropriately:

git push -f

Note: If you have broad knowledge already about rebase then use below one liner for fast rebase. Solution: Assuming you are on your working branch and you are the only person working on it.

git fetch && git rebase origin/master

Resolve any conflicts, test your code, commit and push new changes to remote branch.

                            ~:   For noobs   :~

The following steps might help anyone who are new to git rebase and wanted to do it without hassle

Step 1: Assuming that there are no commits and changes to be made on YourBranch at this point. We are visiting YourBranch.

git checkout YourBranch
git pull --rebase

What happened? Pulls all changes made by other developers working on your branch and rebases your changes on top of it.

Step 2: Resolve any conflicts that presents.

Step 3:

git checkout master
git pull --rebase

What happened? Pulls all the latest changes from remote master and rebases local master on remote master. I always keep remote master clean and release ready! And, prefer only to work on master or branches locally. I recommend in doing this until you gets a hand on git changes or commits. Note: This step is not needed if you are not maintaining local master, instead you can do a fetch and rebase remote master directly on local branch directly. As I mentioned in single step in the start.

Step 4: Resolve any conflicts that presents.

Step 5:

git checkout YourBranch
git rebase master

What happened? Rebase on master happens

Step 6: Resolve any conflicts, if there are conflicts. Use git rebase --continue to continue rebase after adding the resolved conflicts. At any time you can use git rebase --abort to abort the rebase.

Step 7:

git push --force-with-lease 

What happened? Pushing changes to your remote YourBranch. --force-with-lease will make sure whether there are any other incoming changes for YourBranch from other developers while you rebasing. This is super useful rather than force push. In case any incoming changes then fetch them to update your local YourBranch before pushing changes.

Why do I need to push changes? To rewrite the commit message in remote YourBranch after proper rebase or If there are any conflicts resolved? Then you need to push the changes you resolved in local repo to the remote repo of YourBranch

Yahoooo...! You are succesfully done with rebasing.

You might also be looking into doing:

git checkout master
git merge YourBranch

When and Why? Merge your branch into master if done with changes by you and other co-developers. Which makes YourBranch up-to-date with master when you wanted to work on same branch later.

                            ~:   (๑ơ ₃ ơ)♥ rebase   :~

Step 1:

git fetch origin

Step 2:

git rebase origin/master

Step 3:(Fix if any conflicts)

git add .

Step 4:

git rebase --continue

Step 5:

git push --force