I agree here. It feels like the popularity of git has lead us to believe that you either have to choose a clean history or the real history. But I imagine ther

I agree here. It feels like the popularity of git has lead us to believe that you either have to choose a clean history or the real history. But I imagine there exists a design for a source control system where you can preserve history and also provide a clean interpretation of that history. For example, why does rebase have to be a destructive operation?