I appreciate that she acknowledges that rebase is a weird thing to do to a branch. I know it's an ordinary part of many folks' workflows, but it's such a footgun.
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Many hosts allow you to set rules to protect branches from getting their commits removed in the remote (in fact, I think that's the default for gitlab main branches) or to prevent people from pushing their commits to them directly.
I expect even "the main branch has to stay more or less in sync with origin/main" can be automated... though it might not be what you always want, depending how you work.
I think that's treading into "GitLab/Hub/Bitbucket/etc. are not git" territory. Good feature, but not in the product that the post is about.
Still glad you mentioned it, though-- Maybe someone just learned about it because of you.
is reflog very unfriendly UI? what would make it better?
Reflog has saved my ass many times.