[austinshea]

I agree with everything you're saying, and I think other archaeologists feel the same.

My opinionated take is: I wouldn't want to use this space for the information that this tool could provide, and rather leave it as the truth.

The truth is that it was committed without a meaningful message, and now I might recognize a chain of message-less commits, representing a moment in time where the authors were trying to figure out where they wanted to end up.

If the tool is producing this info simply by reading the diffs in the code, why not just use it when you need it, to help explain what you're digging through, instead of changing the commit history?

Either way, the critical detail is: People should get that detail out before the rice has been cooked, and that's what I do for myself, in my own private repos, and when others do that for future archaeologists, we all benefit.