[Nullabillity]

> I'd really like to know what mess people make when they don't rebase.

I think this part is really telling:

> And worth mentioning, the question’s partially moot for people using Github or other hosting services where some GUI tools are built-in. Using the CLI for all interactions with Github, and using the site for the visualizing diffs & branches is totally reasonable.

GitHub's branch view is uniquely awful, and doesn't try to call out branch history at all. Commit lists should either include a railroad diagram or only include the left-facing history. Anything else is just inexcusably broken.

[dahart]

No disagreement from me, so I don’t know what that snippet is telling you. I wasn’t saying GitHub or any other service is the greatest, I was only saying that using the GitHub site mixes GUI and CLI workflows, since using GitHub is so common.

In some sense that goes to the point that CLI can be better than some GUI tools. The ascii railroad diagram you get with git log might be preferable to what GitHub can do.