> Rebase is a very basic and common command available in a tool you use every day. That says a lot about you, not the people you are interviewing. Not everyone

> Rebase is a very basic and common command available in a tool you use every day. That says a lot about you, not the people you are interviewing. Not everyone uses or trusts rebase workflows. I think --first-parent is a far better "basic and common command argument" and better makes use of the power of git's DAG. I have it in some of my default gitconfig files. Can you tell me without looking it up what is --first-parent and when and how you would use it? Some of the teams I've been on could. Others are happy with their (in my considered opinion, hideous) rebase or squash workflows. It's an aesthetic choice as much as a "right" choice to know one workflow over the others. [0] We all have our own workflows and most of us can learn new ones when we join a new team. [0] Barring of course that rebase/squash hides merge conflict resolutions under the rug and trying to reverse engineer mistakes in them is a nightmare, and there's a deep dark rabbit hole from there into darker nightmares like rerere caches. I'm happy to claim that learning DAG traversal tools is not just aesthetically better but objectively safer, especially with junior developers around, but you don't have to take my word for it so let's call it just an "aesthetic choice" to stay on good terms.