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title: "Development & Rebasing"
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# Development & Rebasing

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## Step 5 — Work on the Task

- Implement the changes required by the task on your feature branch.
- Commit your work as you go with clear, descriptive commit messages:

```bash
git add .
git commit -m "#<task_number> - Short description of what was done"
```

For example:

```bash
git commit -m "#42 - Add stock export to Excel functionality"
```

> You may have as many commits as needed on your feature branch.

## Step 6 — Update `dev` Again Before Rebasing

Before rebasing, fetch the latest changes from remote so your rebase is based on the most current state of `dev`:

```bash
git checkout dev
git pull
```

> This step is important. If another developer pushed to `dev` while you were working, you need those changes before you rebase, otherwise you may introduce conflicts or overwrite work.

## Step 7 — Switch Back to Your Feature Branch

```bash
git checkout feature/<task_number>
```

## Step 8 — Rebase the Feature Branch onto `dev`

```bash
git rebase dev
```

This replays your commits on top of the latest `dev`, as if you had started your work from the current state of the branch. The result is a clean, linear history with no unnecessary merge commits from intermediate states.

> If conflicts arise during the rebase:
> 1. Git will pause and show which files have conflicts.
> 2. Open the conflicting files, resolve the conflicts manually.
> 3. Stage the resolved files:
> ```bash
> git add <file>
> ```
> 4. Continue the rebase:
> ```bash
> git rebase --continue
> ```
> 5. Repeat until the rebase completes.
>
> If you need to abort and start over:
> ```bash
> git rebase --abort
> ```