When you rewrite a book and create a new edition, you don't typically recall the old editions. A rewrite needn't be destructive. My point is that git says "reb

When you rewrite a book and create a new edition, you don't typically recall the old editions. A rewrite needn't be destructive. My point is that git says "rebase" even when the underlying base of the commits affected is not changing. This is an artifact of the UI, since the command to rewrite in git is typically git rebase -i.