Rebasing feature branches isn't that bad -- it's similar to the workflow you might use when submitting patches to a mailing list or other patch queue: the patch

Rebasing feature branches isn't that bad -- it's similar to the workflow you might use when submitting patches to a mailing list or other patch queue: the patch floats on top of master and eventually gets applied. It's the rebase-and-fast-forward merge strategy that causes problems. :)