8 rebase a pull request

Maintainers will usually ask contributors to please "squash and rebase / reset their pull request".

What they mean by that is to perform the following workflow for the given reasons:

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appearantly, this act involves updating remote refs along with associated objects, possibly Forward-porting local commits to the updated upstream head. Clear as mud, no?

bear in mind those fast-forward commits, detached head states, treeishes and remotes. self-explanatory of course.