[doix]

I cannot imagine how one could _truly_ destroy git history. You could destroy it locally, sure no problem. You _might_ be able to destroy it on your remote, but if you're using something like Github/Gitlab/Bitbucket I'm sure they'll have a cache that isn't trivial to remove from. But even if you remove it locally and from remote, there's no way you're removing it from other peoples clones. And other people could have pushed to other remotes.

Stuff "leaks" so much in git, that it's really hard to lose work. The only way I could see someone losing work is if they never commit or if they never push. But even if you don't push and just rebase, you're not losing work. You would have to go out of your way to delete git history locally.