I like lambda's answer, to which I'll add: You have NEVER finished work on a feature and you look at the history and there are 10's of commits with crappy comm

I like lambda's answer, to which I'll add: You have NEVER finished work on a feature and you look at the history and there are 10's of commits with crappy commit messages and extremely minor changes? If so, good for you. Not so for me. I don't always squash ALL commits on my feature branch, but I often remove a good number, so the history looks helpful for my future self.