[dahart]

From the Fossil page: > Rebasing is lying about the project history

This tired hyperbole just won’t seem to ever go away. Please try to ignore this junk, the Fossil devs could and should make their point without the FUD and misleading judgement, if they want to be taken seriously. Rebase has perfectly legitimate uses, and if Fossil makes it so you don’t need to rebase, that’s fantastic.

Rebase is most useful before pushing local changes to other people, and most people fluent in git know this fact, and also know that you don’t rebase public branches, you don’t rebase other people’s commits or your own after they’re pushed, except in emergencies and with team communication.

Rebasing before you push is the same amount of “lying” as typing something into your editor and then deleting it before you hit save. You don’t actually want your history at the raw keystroke level, right? You aren’t “lying” if you fix a bug you wrote before you push the bug into public branches, right?