Squashing Commits & Keeping Your History Clean

I'm a big fan of committing early and often. However, if you are anything like me, that means your commit history looks something like this:

added feature
fixed typo
oops another typo
added tests
fix failing test
fix another failing test
UGH TYPO

Fine for me alone, but not a great reference for the rest of the team when they try to figure out WTF I was doing a month or a year later. I've already written about how to rebase and squash commits before, so I won't cover that again. I do want to go a little more into why it's important to do so. Each commit message should reflect a distinct piece of work done. What I need to do now is rebase and change my commits to be more like this:

Added endpoint to return list of components
Added unit tests for component index endpoint

Now, if someone does a git blame, they can get the full context of what I was doing, not just a one character typo change. It's also worth expanding out your messaging and putting more context in the description. Every team has their own style and rules, but, personally, this is my normal git workflow and I'm a huge fan.