Git rebase loses history, then why rebase?

Question

I\'ve been looking into rebasing with Git over the past couple days. Most of the arguments for rebasing say that it cleans up the history and makes it more linear. If you do

Answer 1

If you make a mistake on a public repository and no one has forked/merged/pulled from it yet, you can save face and confusion:

git reset --hard [SHAnumber]

git rebase -f master

git push -f origin HEAD:master

To empty the trash:

git gc