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by Dylan16807 3589 days ago
What makes me think I can write better code than the thousand people downloading my repo later? I don't, but somebody should do the summarizing, and it might as well be me.

Smashing the diffs together gets you the least useful parts of a purposeful squash commit.

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> somebody should do the summarizing, and it might as well be me.

Should they? See my earlier point about gilding lilies and YAGNI ;)

Of course, there are always exceptions! The most obvious ones are processes which work per-commit, e.g. bisecting, conflict resolution, per-commit code review, etc. where having a bunch of interleaved "stories" can be tedious.