Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] writes:
I would like it to still be possible to publically acknowledge a
mistake, make people rewrite their history to remove it, and move on.
While I wish the world were that simple, I do not think that is viable.
You may not have any control over your upstream (not to mention the
possibility that the upstream might even be a foreign SCM).
So I'd prefer to see us prepared to be lenient with what we accept from
outside world.