A Vision Beyond Git: How Safe History Preservation Changes Version Control

Git's simplicity and reliability have masked a critical limitation: squash and rebase operations discard commit history, creating potential pitfalls and information loss for developers. A proposed alternative achieves safer versions of these operations while preserving complete history by committing to diffs at commit time. This approach shows that version control systems can significantly improve safety and auditability without sacrificing the versatility that made Git ubiquitous.