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Comment by h1fra | Hacker News Reader

I might be lucky but in my whole developer life I have only used like 3 commands git stash, git pull --rebase and git merge. I'm not even sure I used git rebase once.

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Well there are lots of useful commands out there you might want to try

  git branch
  git checkout
  git clone
  git diff
  git push

what do you think git pull --rebase does..

I think the most cited drawback of rebase - public branch refs becoming obsolete - is not applicable when you only use it to pull from a canonical remote.

Magic hocus pocus. What else?

well it rebase but I never had to deal with everything in this article. It put my commits on top of HEAD and that's it, never had any issue.

Sure, there are situations when you can get by without rebase. I would even say 'stay away from rebase if you do not have a solid understanding of what it does'.

However, life is much better with rebase than without it.

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