It's correct that rebase rewrites history, but it's important to identify when it's not acceptable. If you are working on a branch that is shared by others (typically main), you should never use rebase. But it's an acceptable practice when used properly. I use rebase on my feature branches whenever necessary. If it fell behind the main branch I do git fetch followed by git rebase origin/main, resolve the merge conflicts and keep coding. I also use interactive rebase when I need to tidy things up before merging the feature branch to main.