> The former can delve a bit into what experiments were tried and abandoned and can give a lot more meaning to the final result. I haven't found this to be tru

> The former can delve a bit into what experiments were tried and abandoned and can give a lot more meaning to the final result. I haven't found this to be true at all. Commits don't tell me anything other than when the coder left their desk for the moment. When there's a policy that allows people to have a "rough, ugly history", where a coder chooses to commit is completely arbitrary. I would argue that the clean, crafted story is the only helpful one. You can argue that a coder shouldn't be committing unless they are at a natural milestone that can be annotated, but I would consider that the "crafted" story.