> I have seen people get in trouble with rebasing and generally while manipulating history but never with the staging area. I think that's what mercurial tries

> I have seen people get in trouble with rebasing and generally while manipulating history but never with the staging area. I think that's what mercurial tries to solve, it makes manipulating history safe (by tracking the state of the commits, whether they were published or not for example, and always keeping all the history but hiding it after it was rewritten).