Why does a git rebase resulted in merge?

I have checked a number of questions about the difference between a git rebase and git merge, however, I did not find an answer for my specific case where I tried to rebase my feature branch with master and after doing git rebase master from my feature branch, it asked me to do a git pull and that resulted in a merge of master to my branch.

Can someone explain why did this happen? Also, did a git revert -m2 <MERGE HASH> and it seemed to revert the merge, but so many other things is out of sync now.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65401998/why-does-a-git-rebase-resulted-in-merge December 22, 2020 at 09:05AM