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by dasil003 5066 days ago
Right, so the greater point I was getting at is that committing is something under the programmer's control. It's not "sacred history", it's all created by programmers as part of their craft, saying you shouldn't rewrite history because you might need it is not much different from saying you should commit every keystroke—they both mean you are of the opinion that you need to know every transformation to the code that happened.