An engineer is finishing a new feature and wants to record the final work on a local repository’s timeline. Which procedure places these changes into the repository with context for later review?
Push the updates to the remote service with a forced overwrite
Perform a rebase on the main branch to rewrite old entries
Use a detached HEAD state to isolate these updates
Commit the changes locally with a clear explanation
Use a local commit with a clear explanation. It saves progress into the repository’s history along with a descriptive note, ensuring a viewable history of changes. Rebasing overwrites past progress, pushing forcibly can disrupt teamwork, and a detached HEAD isolates updates in a temporary state.
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