[sethammons]

In my opinion, it is only valuable to present a pristine history to make sure that every "official" commit provides an application that can be ran. This allows git bisect to do amazing things. In other words, I will git merge --squash. When someone rewrites history after pushing, all they do is make everyone else have a bad day.

[rjbwork]

If I'm pushing non-building commits on a feature branch in Hg, why should it matter? It documents the history of the development of that feature without interfering with default/master.