Why not rebase instead of merge?

[Stephen Paul Weber]

Somebody claiming to be Alexander Kjeldaas wrote:
>Here you might want to do a
>git rebase -i <when-you-split-from-main-branch>
>and squash unnecessary commits into larger ones.

I've never understood why people do this.  It seems to violate the purpose 
of making good atomic commits in the first place.

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