Git Rebase for the Terrified

Join the conversation on Hacker News . As a maintainer of several OneBusAway projects, I regularly ask contributors to rebase their branches before merging. The response is often hesitation or outright fear. I get it. Rebase has a reputation for destroying work, and the warnings you see online don’t help. Here’s the thing: the worst case scenario for a rebase gone wrong is that you delete your local clone and start over. That’s it. Your remote fork still exists. The main repository still exists. You can alw