alt Hacker News> No one is ever going back and reading individual commits.
Straight from the git-log, maybe not, but sometimes you see code that makes you wonder how it came to be and it can help a lot to see it in context of the commit that introduced it. That'd be less helpful if that commit were some huge thing making lots of different changes at once.
Seeing the individual change in the context of the larger feature is actually more helpful. Otherwise you find a tiny commit that changes A to B and then have to chase down 13 other commits around it to figure out why that change was even made.