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		talles on Jan 18, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A list of cool features of Git and GitHub > The first commit of a repo, as the first commit cannot be rebased later Hey, can't I git rebase --root?

ekimekim on Jan 19, 2015 | [–]

You can, but it's still a good idea to avoid as it tends to confuse some tools (and some people).

talles on Jan 19, 2015 | [–]

Ya, I agree. But if you are rebasing I assume you know what you are doing.

More like a shouldn't (or really shouldn't if you will) than cannot.

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