[palata]

> I rebase commits so they don't break the build but the history remains clean and incremental.

Sure, and that's fine. The idea of the squash workflow is that they don't expect that. It's just different, and that's the rationale behind it :-).

> all Git will say is you made a massive edit to the file.

Which IMO is exactly what happened in this case xD. But again... whatever floats your boat, I was just talking from the point of view of a squash workflow.