I don't see that. Keeping your original history around is a function of doing cleanup on a separate branch. It has nothing to do with how that cleanup is achi

I don't see that. Keeping your original history around is a function of doing cleanup on a separate branch. It has nothing to do with how that cleanup is achieved. Rewriting your existing history with git reset can also go horribly wrong, which is why it's done on a separate branch here.