Use of git rebase in public feature branches

Question

You can see all over the web people advising to not use git rebase in a public branch, but I can\'t see what\'s the problem, if you always rebase a feature branch.<

Answer 1

When you rebase against public branch, it's perfectly ok.

But when you rebase public branch itself, it is not good for people which are also working with it.

Addition:

When rebase breaks unittest, you won't have an opportunity to git bisect the faulty revision.

In more details:

• you have prepared some code to be added to the branch.
• you have debugged it so it passes all unit tests
• you've git-fetched new changes in the (remote) branch
• now you're rebasing your code against rebased remote branch
• and here unittests get broken
• you're running git bisect and it points at the remote rebase.
• your actions?