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That's section 2.5 in the same document: https://www.fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.w...

The cool thing with git is that nothing is preventing you from doing the latter. For small personal projects I don’t even care about small commits.

I admit I have not looked at the kernel repo in quite awhile.

Is rebase used with gitflow in that context?

The kernel uses a patch-based workflow. Someone sends a bunch of patches to a list, gets feedback, improves on the patches, and sends the new set of patches. This might have added patches to the set, or changes to the existing patches. Repository write access is not (generally) shared between developers.

This is a very, very different way of using git from how almost everyone else uses git.