By manually deciding when to `git commit` in the first place, you're already losing some history. Nobody argues to keep the history of every keystroke, so clear

By manually deciding when to `git commit` in the first place, you're already losing some history. Nobody argues to keep the history of every keystroke, so clearly there is some point in between that and "no history" that is useful. The argument for rebase is that some of your local commits (especially ones like "going home for the day" or "whoops typo") are just as useless a level of detail as your other random keystrokes.