Why not rebase instead of merge?

[Andy Georges]

On 22 Feb 2013, at 17:50, Geoffrey Mainland <mainland at apeiron.net> wrote:

> I don't want to bike shed, but the prevalence of empty merge commits in
> the repo seems both undesirable and avoidable. I always rebase my work
> instead of merge. Is there a reason this is not standard practice in the
> repo? It certainly makes for a nicer history.
> 

I guess because rebasing means actually rewriting history. Which is undesirable in itself. Once commits have been pushed out, you should never rebase, afaik. 

Regards,
-- Andy