IDK who D. R. Hip thinks agrees that rebasing is bad, but I sure as heck don't. Rebasing is good on private branches: it lets you write clean linear history.

IDK who D. R. Hip thinks agrees that rebasing is bad, but I sure as heck don't. Rebasing is good on private branches: it lets you write clean linear history. Conversely, intra-project-branch history is of little or no interest whatsoever once pushed upstream. Rebasing published branches is not a good thing, of course, but fans of rebasing don't propose that.