You’ve been there: tangled branches, half-broken merges, and policies written in three different places that no one follows. Teams lose hours — sometimes days — cleaning it up. And every push is a gamble. The root problem isn’t Git. It’s how we treat security as an afterthought, separate from the code.
Git rebase puts history in order. Security as Code makes rules part of that history. Together, they give you predictable builds, traceable changes, and safeguards checked at every commit. This is not theory. It works because the moment security drifts outside the repo, it starts to die.
When you make security policies code, every pull request enforces them. Every rebase reflects them. Your security posture is no longer a spreadsheet or a Confluence page. It’s versioned, testable, and reviewable like any other part of your stack. You no longer “hope” your CI pipeline catches violations. You know it will.
Rebasing isn’t only about making history pretty. With security codified, rebase becomes a checkpoint that applies your current rules to everything in flight. No drift, no exceptions that slip in unnoticed. Old commits get aligned with the latest policies before they hit main.