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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 09:56:02 +1100
Subject: Re: Question about Source Control
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 1:58 AM, Albert-Jan Roskam <fomcl@yahoo.com> wrote:
> One more thing (so this is not entirely a double post!). While reading th=
ese books I found that the authors were pretty religious about Clean Commit=
s. I mean, ok, it's not a good idea to do one huge monolithic commit each m=
onth, but I felt they were exaggerating. But maybe I'm wrong and clean comm=
its become more important when the number of collaborators get bigger. It's=
 just so easy to fix something, and e.g. correct that typo in a docstring w=
hile you're at it.
>

It's important even with a single editor. When you go back and look at
a commit, you should be able to read the summary and know immediately
whether a particular line in it should have been edited or not.
Combining changes into a single commit makes that harder.

Commits are cheap. Do more of 'em rather than less.

ChrisA