Default rebase arguments are sub-optimal

Testing on current `master`, it seems that the default rebase command comes with new arguments applied, which likely shouldn't be for a "simple rebase":

`git rebase --interactive --autostash --keep-empty --empty=keep --no-autosquash --rebase-merges fix-hit-distro-code-quality`

Specifically, `--rebase-merges` is unexpected. It means merges are stuck in history when my primary purpose of the rebase is to remove those merges.