[flir]

> Surely you can understand the difference between omitting less interesting points along a timeline and literally changing what was recorded retroactively for points that have been selected as meaningful along that timeline?

You know, the word "history" might be abused by git as much as the word "friend" is by facebook.

BTW, I never really got an answer to this one: what do you do when you notice a typo ten seconds after you committed? A new commit that says "typo fix", or squash the commit on to the previous commit?

[wandernotlost]

If I've already pushed my branch, typically I have a draft PR open and tests are being run against it, and I'm not going to force push, because that's obnoxious and I've probably prohibited it in the repo.

If it's a local commit and I catch it in ten seconds, I will sometimes throw up in my mouth a little bit as I amend the commit.

I view source control as one of the best places for an immutable log of events, and prefer immutable logs for many things in general, for a variety of reasons. So yes, I fix forward.