I'd rather have the dirty history than the clean one. It seems really useful to have a record of an approach that didn't work, to save others from trying it aga

I'd rather have the dirty history than the clean one. It seems really useful to have a record of an approach that didn't work, to save others from trying it again. To see a "clean" history, I can always use log options like git's -first-parent. It works great and doesn't delete history.