> If I see a ton of commits like "fixing formatting" or "oops", I want those squashed away into proper commits.

Every team I'm in I strongly advise against such commits honestly. They don't help anyone, I emphasize being able to find things you changed if you need to find them. You can even enforce a format for commits.

Funnily enough, I saw a wave of "fixes bug" "now really fixes bug" that got auto rejected by some commitcop utility at a former job, the guy was freaking out cause it wouldnt take all his changes. I guess they wanted to force him to stop doing such awful commit messages.

Commit messages should be useful and historically descriptive.