You can’t use the UI to just rebase. You would do that on your local repo and 
force push your branch. You could even take that time to squash yourself. 

Then the pull would show your new rebased commits for someone to approve and 
merge (squash too if they want).

-Jake


> On Oct 5, 2017, at 5:20 PM, Dave Barnes <dbar...@pivotal.io> wrote:
> 
> Jake,
> Say I have a PR with the original commit plus two more to incorporate
> reviewer suggestions. How is it possible within the github UI to just
> rebase without also merging? I don't see that choice in the gitbox pulldown
> menu.
> 
>> On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 4:59 PM, Jacob Barrett <jbarr...@pivotal.io> wrote:
>> 
>> If you want to preserve all commits use rebase and merge. If you want a
>> single commit then use squash and merge, which rebases, squashes, and
>> merges. Both options update the commit info with the person performing the
>> merge.
>> 
>> Personally though I think you should be asking contributors to rebase
>> before you accept their pull so you know it has been vetted agains the
>> latest develop changes. As committer you shouldn’t have to resolve a
>> submitters trash. This makes merging safe too.
>> 
>> -Jake
>> 
>> 
>>> On Oct 5, 2017, at 4:32 PM, Nick Reich <nre...@pivotal.io> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Here are the docs from github:
>>> https://help.github.com/articles/about-pull-request-merges/
>>> 
>>> Based on those and using squash and commit for some of my merges, it
>> looks
>>> like it does what we want: just one commit for the merge of the feature
>>> branch. Note that "rebase and merge" in github does not actually work
>>> exactly like it does in git (see above link).
>>> 
>>>> On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 4:15 PM, Jared Stewart <jstew...@pivotal.io>
>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Does anyone happen to know if “squash and merge” also does a rebase or
>>>> not? I’ve been hesitant to use that button since I’m not sure what exact
>>>> sequence of git commands it corresponds to.
>>>> 
>>>>> On Oct 5, 2017, at 3:59 PM, Jason Huynh <jhu...@pivotal.io> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I think we can also use "squash and merge" if wanting to squash commits
>>>>> before merging.  This would allow you not to have to force push every
>>>> time.
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 3:15 PM Jinmei Liao <jil...@pivotal.io> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On the PR UI page, you can do that by pull down the the menu when you
>>>> are
>>>>>> ready to merge. Remember to use "Rebase and merge".
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> ​
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Not sure if this is useful to everyone, but when I push a subsequent
>>>> commit to my feature branch, I always use "force push", so that it's
>> only
>>>> one commit I need to rebase to develop.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 3:00 PM, Jared Stewart <jstew...@pivotal.io>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I’ve been seeing a lot more merge commits on develop since we moved
>> to
>>>>>>> Gitbox.  Just wanted to give everyone a friendly reminder to please
>>>> rebase
>>>>>>> before merging to keep our git history tidy and readable.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>> Jared
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Jinmei
>>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>> 

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