[__david__]

I think what people with your opinion are missing is that in a VCS without rebase/amend capabilities all that happens is people like me commit way less often. That is, I get everything working and fully tested and only then start checking in my code. With git I can commit almost immediately, before everything is tested and working. It allows me to start organizing the patches early and keep them up to date as I finish doing the task at hand. In that sense it is not rewriting history. I'm creating history. I don't push my code to the central repo until it's done and after that it doesn't get rebased.

Should I start committing every single version of the code I've ever saved so I can see all my false starts and typos? Maybe but there's not a lot of good information to be had there.