Ah: yes, very good point. That's another option rebase gives you that you pretty much can't do with merges. (Throwaway merges plus rerere will give you some o

Ah: yes, very good point. That's another option rebase gives you that you pretty much can't do with merges. (Throwaway merges plus rerere will give you some of the benefit, but it's not as good as incrementally bringing your branch up to date.)