It's not my history. My history includes every time I hit Ctrl+Z without doing a commit in between. But you wouldn't commit every keystroke, because it's not i

It's not my history. My history includes every time I hit Ctrl+Z without doing a commit in between. But you wouldn't commit every keystroke, because it's not informative. It doesn't tell you anything about why you did something. We're not advocating throwing away history specifically, we're advocating writing helpful history, leaving helpful traces.