I'm not a fan of changing history at all, but: > to any shared repository while still working on a feature? What if it takes 2+ weeks? A lot of projects don't

I'm not a fan of changing history at all, but: > to any shared repository while still working on a feature? What if it takes 2+ weeks? A lot of projects don't want our partially implemented changes, if only one person is working on them, just the first ready-for-others result and subsequent smaller fix updates. > Or what do you mean by local? This is key: remember that git is distributed, so backups of your really local repository should be as easy as pushing to a remote copy. If you aren't doing that (or even if you are) keeping an automatic off-machine backup of your working directories is a good idea in case of drive failure. If you are working on a feature with a team, perhaps a team-local shared repository is a valid answer.