I hate (and fear) force-pushing and "cleaning up" git history as much as other people dislike squash-merging =)

It just feels wrong to force push, destroying stuff that used to be there.

And I don't have the time or energy to bisect through my shitty PR commits and combine them into something clean looking - I can just squash instead.

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seba_dos1 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Nothing is destroyed by a force push. It just overwrites a single pointer, and even keeps its old value in reflog.

Things that aren't referenced by anything anymore will eventually get garbage collected and actually destroyed, but you can just keep a reference somewhere to prevent that from happening if you need. Or even disable garbage collection completely.

Looks like people's fears about git come just from not knowing what it does.

	▲	Noumenon72 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You can't use the remote reflog to revert what you force pushed, can you? But I agree that having your local reflog means you're never totally lost. I still just make a branch before major edits so I can go back.