[doix]

You don't need to reset the branch. Using rebase -i, you can squash all your WIP commits that way.

You can also use it to split and individually pick changes if you want to clean up your commits.

You can automatically fix up commits after review commits using git absorb [1].

[1] https://github.com/tummychow/git-absorb

[mb7733]

As a big fan of interactive rebase, when cleanint up a chunk of commits I do a reset as reset the OP described (smetimes mid rebase). It's convenient for inspecting all your changes together, and you can pick and choose changes into different commits easily too... Pretty much equivalent, but I find it more straightforward for some things.