rebase turns the snapshots temporarily into a stack of patches, lets you play with them, then turns them back into snapshots. In fact, this is why rebase is an

rebase turns the snapshots temporarily into a stack of patches, lets you play with them, then turns them back into snapshots. In fact, this is why rebase is an out-of-band tool that has odd effects on shared history - specifically because it's inverting git's model into something more like pijul's, and therefore isn't really native-to-git.