It took a couple years of daily git use on private projects but I’ve now come to believe that the benefits of a clean linear history outweigh the benefits of a perfect historical record. git-rebase maintains the commit dates also, so you can infer a good deal about the original history. An original history may give me a clue about what a developer was thinking at the time, but this is not necessarily of greater benefit than knowing in a clear order what changes were applied to the codebase. In the end a more powerful git-bisect is the trump card that puts me firmly in the camp of rebase, at least for private projects.
