[OJFord]

    > But then rebase, squash, and edit the commits before
    > sharing them.

And then realise that doing it properly in the first place most definitely would not have been a slow-down!

[rev_bird]

This is pretty simple to do outside of die-hard "continuous integration" shops -- most of the time I can just do git rebase -i HEAD~4 (where '4' is the number of little dumb commits I made) and squash them all into the first commit.

But if I made a few commits, then pulled in someone's changes, then made a few more... well... http://xkcd.com/1597/