[smackay]

On a given feature branch the history is only important if there is more than one review until the work is complete. What the developer does in between these visible/public events is almost always not important. For example in a "make work, make right" situation where the original work is thrown away and rewritten you definitely are not interested in the history.

[fulafel]

Have you ever gone back to your (or someone else's) code from 6 months ago and needed to refresh your memory about what you tried and what didn't work, or why some of your test cases/data are what they are? Or why you commented out some test? It can be very helpful, I think this history is often important. And you won't know if a given bit of code history is important until you need it.