Comment by isleyaardvark

That’s what I do, and I find this talk about “throwing away” code history baffling. It’s version control. Git branching is cheap.

I make a ton of backup copies. I rearrange the history to how I want before I share it (git history split is great). I keep my nonsense, others see a readable changeset. (Only downside is the occasional housecleaning of old branches, but after a while their usefulness diminishes.)