I'd moved workstation by then. If distributed source control is good for anything, surely it's reducing reliance on local state!
I don't think there's an easy answer here. I think there are good things to be said for a readable and bisect-able version history, but also that if you're not preserving your real commit history in a way that's backed up remotely then something's probably wrong.
I'm beginning to think this area, this schism into two schools of thought, is really a signpost that there's something lacking in git's branching. Or something everyone is missing, including me :)
