git rebase and merge differences and application scenarios

There is no difference between rebase and merge for two branches, but rebase is cleaner because log hisitory is linear, but a commit is not necessarily sorted by date, but a local commit is always behind. History becomes more complex after the merge, but the commit is sorted by date, and the StackOverflow has a good illustration:

Http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16666089/whats-the-difference-between-git-merge-and-git-rebase

This blog says that the applicable scenario is that the product OEM retains the branch for rebase, and the functional branch is merged into the main branch with the merge.

http://blog.csdn.net/rryqsh/article/details/8230560