Unpleasant commit history

[reganto]

Hi, I realized that git history is a little bit dirty

suggestions:

• I think we should add "coercion to rebase" before any PR in CONTRIBUTING.md
• Squash and merge

Best Regards
Reganto

[bobycloud]

Hi, Could you please clean the git history dear @reganto?

[reganto]

Hi dear @bobycloud

There is an interactive rebase solution for this situation but with that solution we lose a lot of commits. I'm curious to know if you have any experience of cleaning up git history without losing commits?

[SepehrRasouli]

@reganto , If the commits are redundant and useless, Losing them won't hurt anyone. I believe it might actually benefit us too.

[reganto]

Dear @SepehrRasouli

Honestly, I don't have a clear idea about this. But I can think of people who made their first open source contribution to this repository. They might later want to refer to their first contribution, and if we consider their PR as their signature, I don't think it would be ethical to erase that signature.

[SepehrRasouli]

Your reasoning is very ethical and I completely understand it.
But, I think squashing their commits won't hurt them, Because we're not squashing their commits with others, For example, In the picture you've attached, Look at the three last commits made by @smoeinbbp, Squashing them together won't remove them from contributors list or hurt what they've done.
But still, Squashing these commits might be an unethical idea. I think we should have a CONTRIBUTING.md file to tell new contributors the correct conventions for commiting their changes. This will prevent more dirtiness in the future.
What do you think about it @lnxpy @bobycloud ?