Fixing rebase rather than avoiding it

[Stefan Monnier]

> From the Emacs devs perspective, the problem with rebase is that it is
> yet another new concept and some people had enough of those.

[ I'm not speaking as an Emacs dev in this thread. ]

The problem with rebase, AFAIK (the problem that my suggestion aims to
solve) is that you can't "track" a branch that gets rebased.
I.e. rebasing cannot be used on branches that are published.


        Stefan