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You can use all the git commands while doing a rebase.

When you want to work on an older commit for a longer time and don't want to stay in a rebase, you just check it out and work normally, when you are done and want to propagate your changes, then you do a single rebase.

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I’m reminded of the Dropbox comment.

You can do anything with a Turing machine. That you can isn’t the point. The point is the tool does all the things you can automatically and correctly so you don’t have to. There’s no ’just do this or that during rebase, or outside of it’. There’s only ‘it rebased everything correctly without a single thought, nice’.

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SSH is definitely easier than Dropbox :-).

Yes, and my point is that having a rebase and edit everything isn't too different from first modifying everything and then doing an automatic rebase.