alt Hacker NewsGit history is incredible important, yes, but also limited.
Practically, it only encodes information that made it into `main`, not what an author just mulled over in their head or just had a brief prototype for, or ran an unrelated toy simulation over.
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1718627440 • today at 6:25 AM
If you throw away commit messages, that is on you, it is not a limitation of Git. If I am cleaning up before merging, I'm maybe rephrasing things, but I am not throwing that information away. I regularly push branches under 'draft/...' or 'fail/...' to the central project repository.
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In fairness to GP, they said VCS, not Git, even if they are somewhat synonomous today. Other VCSes did support graph histories.
Still, "3rd dimension" code reasoning (backwards in time) has never been merged well with code editing.