What if, in a team-based situation, someone is off and half way through a feature. Based on your point above there's now two problems: * Getting the stuff off

What if, in a team-based situation, someone is off and half way through a feature. Based on your point above there's now two problems: * Getting the stuff off the developer's machine because they didn't push their code. * Even if the code is retrieved, now the commit log is a mess of commits that were based on nothing but arbitrary time lapses. It would be preferable they're a 'story' of the current development process for the feature and atomic in their own right.