Fixing rebase rather than avoiding it

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Stefan Monnier writes:

 > > When would you refer to the obsolete history?

My intention here was that "you refer to the human user, not to the VCS.

 > Any time you need to merge/update/pull a branch that referred to
 > that history.  Or for forensic analysis of course, since that "obsolete"
 > branch would hold the "true real history" ;-)

In other words, once in a blue moon.

I think Jelmer's point, that the duplicate commits would be a
noticeable annoyance when using bzr log -n0, is correct.