2. Ditch rebasing. You really are completely clueless. Rebasing is invaluable for use on private branches that no one will ever see but the developer. It all

2. Ditch rebasing. You really are completely clueless. Rebasing is invaluable for use on private branches that no one will ever see but the developer. It allows you to clean up your history before others see it. EDIT: oh, and you can make a hook (like I did from day 1) that disallows non-fast-forward pushes to certain public repos.