[echion]

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

Git rebase is absolutely a vital part of the developer toolkit. If you're not using it, you're missing out on a big timesaver and git feature.

I think you must be talking about rebasing public commits/history. In the article he is specifically talking about private history and has a nice big warning against rebasing public history. Linus has explained the distinction pretty well before: http://www.mail-archive.com/[e-mail]/... .