Re: why is merging with unstaged changes allowed when rebasing is not?

Christian Halstrick [off-list ref] writes:

Isn't it inconsistent that I can merge with unstaged changes in my
work-tree but not rebase?

Because people who wrote rebase didn't bother; it is too cumbersome to
check all the possibly affected paths beforehand while replaying multiple
changes.

Patches welcome ;-).