What is the advantage of the rebase command in Mercurial?

Question

Compare to standard push/pull, what is the advantages of using the rebase command in Mercurial?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2516439/what-is-the-advantage-of-the-rebase-command-in-mercurial

Answer 1

This post has a nice explanation:

The answer lies in rebasing. Rebasing is a technique made popular by git where you rewrite your not-yet-pushed patches so that they apply against the current remote tip, rather than against the tip of the repository you happened to last pull. The benefit is that your merge history shows useful merges—merges between major branches—rather than simply every single merge you did with the upstream repository.

Normal pull, merge, push sequence will create a number of commits that are not very useful in terms of the history of your repository. Rebasing helps to eliminate these.