[PascalPrecht]

Hi, Pascal the author here.

I'm probably not very good at expressing that the book is not only about rebasing. While it is the main focus, the book covers a lot of other things that aim to give you a really good understanding of the tool (which I believe is necessary to make sense of (interactive) rebasing).

And just like you said, you can totally get around with adding/committing/pushing changes without ever touching the rebase command. Perfectly fine.

If you want to be more flexible and productive with your work, you might want to learn how to rebase though.