Interactive rebasing is essential for cleaning up commit history, combining related commits, and preparing a polished commit sequence before merging to main branches. As the creator of CoreUI with over 25 years of development experience managing Git repositories since the early 2000s, I’ve used interactive rebase extensively to maintain clean, readable project history across our open-source repositories. The most powerful approach is using git rebase -i with a base commit to interactively edit, squash, reorder, or delete commits in your branch. This method provides complete control over commit history while maintaining the logical flow of changes for better code review and project maintenance.