Comment by skydhash

> So many people are so quick to throw away their history so that things look "tidy". It makes no sense, but somehow it fits a certain programmer-brain logic that is surprisingly common.

I want my commits to reflect the evolution of the theory of the program, not a chronological log of my reflection and attempts. In my local branches I snapshot things that only matters to my working process. And before sharing, I make sure that the commits are atomic with a proper description.

When sending a report, do you also send all the post-it, the notebook with your notes, the books with the highlights , your conversation with your colleagues, your web history? I don’t think you do. My local history have commits that reflect my working process which can be messy. Before sharing I tidy them, so that the changes are easily understood.

> entire PR's worth of commits and squashing them together to throw away the only (in my mind) thing that version control is good for, is truly baffling

A PR is supposed to be atomic if you’re using squash and merge. Bundling different changes is the antipattern here, not the squash and merge.