[jordigh]

> This workflow is scary. A rebase should not be part of any everyday workflow and must be reserved _only_ for exceptional situations.

This is what Mercurial Evolve tries to solve. There's nothing wrong with rewriting draft commits. The only potential problem is rewriting public commits. Mercurial uses phases to distinguish drafts from published commits and you may optionally designate certain repositories as non-publishing, so that they can be used for collaboratively editing draft commits.

A similar de facto convention on git is to only rewrite certain branches (e.g. feature branches) but never rewrite others (e.g. master). Commits that are local-only can be rewritten at will. Mercurial just codifies this convention via phases.