Comment by theshrike79
16 hours ago
I hate (and fear) force-pushing and "cleaning up" git history as much as other people dislike squash-merging =)
It just feels wrong to force push, destroying stuff that used to be there.
And I don't have the time or energy to bisect through my shitty PR commits and combine them into something clean looking - I can just squash instead.
Nothing is destroyed by a force push. It just overwrites a single pointer, and even keeps its old value in reflog.
Things that aren't referenced by anything anymore will eventually get garbage collected and actually destroyed, but you can just keep a reference somewhere to prevent that from happening if you need. Or even disable garbage collection completely.
Looks like people's fears about git come just from not knowing what it does.
You can't use the remote reflog to revert what you force pushed, can you? But I agree that having your local reflog means you're never totally lost. I still just make a branch before major edits so I can go back.