I completely agree. The Linux kernel workflow is the only way to use git effectively and the history is always useful and each commit is nice and self-contained. Some people apparently don't understand that "no squashing of patchsets" means that the merger shouldn't squash a patchset (not that the developer can't make the patchset clean) and that "no rewriting history" refers to master once things have been merged into it.
It's not the only way to use git effectively, but it's definitely the canonical one. I think a Chesterton's fence rule should apply to git: if you're doing something different from LKML, you should be able to clearly explain exactly why. No linking to some blog post you found, either, unless it's by Junio Hamano (and you still have to explain, you can't just link).
