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Comment by wandernotlost

So now you've erased the record of your actual process, that might be revealing later to someone who's trying to figure out what the heck you were thinking, for the sake of trying to create a history that looks more linear or tidy than the reality of what happened, and, if you're not running tests and re-evaluating all the intermediate steps along your history, introducing the possibility that you've invalidated something that worked at one of those points in history and no longer does after you rewrite it.

This strikes me as a crazy fastidiousness over making your history look the way that you want it to look, rather than preserving the actual history, which is detrimental to the value of being able to find out what actually happened when something goes wrong.

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