@tychosoft @chancerydaily @riley @thomasfuchs even with CVS and SVN I had to alter history from time to time. Sometimes people use the systems in a very wrong way and commit the absolutely wrong stuff. Sometimes legal reasons require removal.

Being able to rewrite however allows me to work with small iterative commits, but present something reviewable.

But there are still systems, like Fossil, which do not like rewrites and are quite interesting.