[lmm]

> I've been in enough projects that changed version control systems, had to restart the version control from a snapshot for whatever reason (data loss, performance issues with tools due to the commit history, etc) that I wouldn't want to take this approach.

When was that? I've never seen that in 15-20 years of software development; I've seen plenty of projects change VCS but they always had the option of preserving the history.