For me it's the other way around. I mean, it's like one of the few commands which says what it does: re-base. Makes all kind of sense to me: take what you have

For me it's the other way around. I mean, it's like one of the few commands which says what it does: re-base. Makes all kind of sense to me: take what you have and put it on top of something else. So same as a bunch of cherry-picks, etc. It was one of the first concepts I undesrtood. Merge on the other hand I understand as well but it leads to graphs I can't understand without spending some time looking at.