[pvorb]

I don't think this is what people mean by a rewrite here. I expect any code that makes it to review to undergo some kind of refactoring. Sometimes it's going to be refactored as part of the review. And if throwing away your first draft works for you to create better software, that's fine! I still consider this as some kind of refactoring.

Throwing away a whole repository that was tested and running in production or on some dev environment, is something different in my point of view. And I think that's what people mean by "rewrite".