My impression is that rebase is used as a palliative to a short coming of log history display. It would be indeed useful to be able to show only key merges/comm

My impression is that rebase is used as a palliative to a short coming of log history display. It would be indeed useful to be able to show only key merges/commits log messages. This would imply adding some kind of level to the logs so that they can be collapsed like function code in modern code editors.