Keeping your commits as separate units of change, and leveraging rebase/ff-only is worth is simply so you can do stuff like the following. git revert $(git

Keeping your commits as separate units of change, and leveraging rebase/ff-only is worth is simply so you can do stuff like the following. git revert $(git rev-list COMMIT43^..COMMIT123 -- path/to/thing) I've been on teams where everyone _hates_ what a stickler I am about good VCS hygiene until they realize something that looks like it's going to be a big pain in the ass at first glance is doable with a one liner.