I can see the point of being pathologically protective of your own source history. But the project you are sending a PR to only really need to see the final eff

I can see the point of being pathologically protective of your own source history. But the project you are sending a PR to only really need to see the final effect of the changes. Of course for your own local history the same technique can work, you just keep the old branch as well as the newly cleaned one. Though that might be unnecessary clutter to many.