The Perils of Rebasing

Figure 43. Final commit history The Perils of Rebasing Ahh, but the bliss of rebasing isn’t without its drawbacks, which can be summed up in a single line: Do not rebase commits that exist outside your repository and that people may have based work on. If you follow that guideline, you’ll be fine. If you don’t, people will hate you, and you’ll be scorned by friends and family.

A text-heavy programming meme presents “The Perils of Rebasing” and warns against rebasing commits that exist outside your repository or that others may have based work on. The exaggerated threat of being hated and scorned by friends and family turns a serious Git guideline into mock-dramatic advice, making it useful as a reaction to dangerous or inconsiderate code changes.

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