> I often don't want to record my development history in the master branch because it's messy. Instead I squash my work into a single cohesive commit personall

> I often don't want to record my development history in the master branch because it's messy. Instead I squash my work into a single cohesive commit personally i rebase my commits into fewer ones so the result is a reasonable compromise between how-the-code-actually-evolved (which is messy, true) and a clear, simple progression from start to completion of the feature (one single commit if taken to the extreme). > I can say "hey Joe, you broke the frobber when you implemented the new gizmo." that breaks if joe is not available anymore or the change is complex (or old) enough that the detailed history would help debugging, but joe doesn't have the branch lying around anymore because he deleted it or switched machines etc. There are certainly advantages to a single commit per feature :) I just think having more information available through more commits is a good thing, and i don't see large disadvantages of having larger amounts of commits, provided you really do squash those "fix last commit" commits etc. to keep the commit count reasonable.