Speaking of trust, I have a really hard time taking seriously the argument that squashing or rebasing is "lying". If you'd stuck to meaningful, I'd consider it seriously. But "lying"? This may be git's biggest flame war, this is an old and tired debate, and calling it "lying" is an over-the-top ham-fisted value judgement of a technical workflow that is a personal choice with legitimate reasons to go either way.

Also, Linus endorses cleaning up your WIP commits before pushing.