What is the big deal about keeping a clean history?
It's always seemed so much effort than it's worth.
Besides, isn't it better to keep a history of what actually happened? Something about being doomed to repeat it comes to mind...
It's always seemed so much effort than it's worth.
Besides, isn't it better to keep a history of what actually happened? Something about being doomed to repeat it comes to mind...
That way you can branch at any point in the commit history and be sure it'll run cleanly or cherry-pick a change without having to remember everything that it might depend on. And you get exactly what you want and nothing more.
That's only useful for me, during tight development loops, not to a historian looking back at what I actually did. So before I push to others, I squash it to a changeset, possibly keeping all the commit messages in the single commit.