Erm, because it looks weird? Do you know any other language projects that squash their repos down to 1 commit? That's a destruction of trust, which is kinda important if you want people to build on your language.

Virtually everyone has AI slop in the commit history. No one's judging you for the commit history. Everyone's code smells, but the fact that you're ashamed/hiding it is... odd.

> there's a lot of personal info

You should know that force pushing doesn't hide actual commits; it's trivially viewable if someone just iterates https://github.com/bendlang/bend/activity?ref=main e.g. https://github.com/bendlang/bend/commit/d184863 so like... why bother.

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LightMachine a day ago | parent | next [-]

alright, we could try to restore history removing sensitive bits if that's so important. thanks for the feedback

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AlexErrant a day ago | parent [-]

Props. G'luck with your project, I know what it's like to work nights & weekends. Unfortunately, first impressions matter.

	▲	LightMachine a day ago \| parent [-]
		Ty! Commit history is back now

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tehnub a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I for one don't find it strange at all that he squashed the commit history. I suspect many feel similarly. You've demonstrated that you're quite taken aback by it, but without explaining anything wrong with it. It is not a "destruction of trust".

	▲	AlexErrant a day ago \| parent [-]
		I mean... If you wanna build your project on a language that has no auditable history, reproducible builds, artifacts/releases, force pushes and breaks literally EVERY fork/PR, has no way to build or even see v2.0.3, and doesn't have changelogs... then I guess that's cool. You must be a trusting person; I unfortunately am not like that.