• Kache@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    A title as uninformative as the single . commit messages he suggests writing.

    Bare minimums of typo, refactor, whitespace, comments are barely any effort – less than the thought it takes to name variables and functions.

    I really can’t agree with completely meaningless messages like minor and .

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      10 months ago

      Git is a lot of things at once:

      1. A tool to record development history - warts and all
      2. A tool to create a logical sequence of changes
      3. A tool to communicate intent and ideas to a maintainer

      Meaningless messages like minor and . don’t suit any of these roles - not even 1. Even when recording development history with all mistakes, you’d still need context when you look back at the history. Matklad is a well respected developer. I wonder why he’s make such a bizarre claim.