I tend to find that people who want to preserve what happened have a
different way of working where they tend to try to create good commits
as they go whereas I (post-git) just create a bunch of "WIP" commits
for almost every change regardless of whether it compiles or not and
then clean up the "history" for readability once the full change is
ready for pushing to the world. I used to be in the former group, but
have found that moving to the in the latter workflow is incredibly
liberating. It means that I don't waste nearly as much time checking
that everything compiles (etc.) for every little change I make. I just
check all that stuff for the final series of commits.