Rebasing is a way to cleanup when a project have a useless history because of too many small commits, badly described and so on. A dangerous way, but still a way.
The issue is another: git does next to nothing to handle forks. We can cherry pick some commits, but there is no easy way to state "we have a project that a certain point in time diverge, keeping some common base, that need to be kept in sync, ignoring the fork specific changes". This led to long and manual three-way merges. No extra help.
The issue is another: git does next to nothing to handle forks. We can cherry pick some commits, but there is no easy way to state "we have a project that a certain point in time diverge, keeping some common base, that need to be kept in sync, ignoring the fork specific changes". This led to long and manual three-way merges. No extra help.