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# Working with stacked branches
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When working on a large branch it can often be useful to break it down into
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smaller pieces, and it can help to create separate branches for each independent
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chunk of changes. For example, you could have one branch for preparatory
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refactorings, one for backend changes, and one for frontend changes. Those
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branches would then all be stacked onto each other.
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Git has support for rebasing such a stack as a whole; you can enable it by
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setting the git config `rebase.updateRfs` to true. If you then rebase the
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topmost branch of the stack, the other ones in the stack will follow. This
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includes interactive rebases, so for example amending a commit in the first
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branch of the stack will "just work" in the sense that it keeps the other
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branches properly stacked onto it.
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Lazygit visualizes the invidual branch heads in the stack by marking them with a
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cyan asterisk (or a cyan branch symbol if you are using [nerd
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fonts](Config.md#display-nerd-fonts-icons)).
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