This is a publish-only mirror repo.

The commit history is the publish history, not the work history.

but if you other ppl to read, use or contribute, they will probably need the "work history" more than a "publish history". because nobody is going to read those big ass commits, specially when unsure about it worthiness.

that doesn't make much sense. why go out of your way to publish a selected history instead of the whole work?

Where's the actual repo then?

I'm assuming you're the author, why not publish everything?