It's possible the other reason is trying to manipulate git history too frequently. Keep in mind this comes from a prolific git history abuser and rebaser... if hacking on a branch, a trail of messy commits is fine, it's your work in progress, it's also useful if you messed up otherwise you are forced to use reflog. Rebase when you are at the final stage of tidying things up and squashing commits down into a legible history, not on every single amendment... for this style of history rewriting rebase is perfect because you have the full power to rearrange rewrite and squash commits.