[shadowfiend]

> How easy is it to accidentally remove a line during interactive rebase and lose all work associated with it?

This is not only not easy, it's actually very difficult. If you drop something in an interactive rebase, you can reset your HEAD to the HEAD commit from before your rebase. It's a bit arcane, and has its own dangers, but it's also important to be clear that rebases are not destructive unless a git gc runs between your rebase and realizing you made a mistake. It's also the equivalent fix to checking out intermediate commits for a squash merge, as far as I know.

Don't get me wrong, I don't think rebase should be the first tool you reach for and I don't particularly like “rebase everything to master” workflows. But it's not as dangerous as you're making it sound, IMO.

[Hello71]

correction: unless you wait 30 or 90 days (depending on what you do in the interim) and then run other git commands which trigger automatic gc (which typically only happens with large repositories) or manual gc (in which case you're just asking for problems)