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Good Software Development Habits

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361 points mmphosis | 1 comments | 17 Nov 24 16:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.374s | source
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simonw ◴[17 Nov 24 18:17 UTC] No.42165792[source]▶
On commit size:

> You just never know when you have to revert a particular change and there's a sense of bliss knowing where you introduced a bug six days ago and only reverting that commit without going through the savagery of merge conflicts.

This is key for me: a good shape to aim for with a commit is one that can be easily reverted.

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charles_f ◴[17 Nov 24 18:21 UTC] No.42165815[source]▶
A trick to help doing that, when you start having multiple changes that could be distinct commits, use git add --patch to select the changes one by one. Not only that can allow you to create smaller changes, it also gives you an opportunity to review your code before you commit
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JoshTriplett ◴[17 Nov 24 18:29 UTC] No.42165883[source]▶
Agreed, but after decomposing the change into logical commits, doublecheck that the project builds after each commit.
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do_not_redeem ◴[17 Nov 24 18:38 UTC] No.42165954[source]▶
Or even better, set up a pre-commit hook so that happens automatically.
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s4i ◴[17 Nov 24 19:22 UTC] No.42166337[source]▶
Or even better, do that in CI.
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1. mdaniel ◴[17 Nov 24 20:15 UTC] No.42166794[source]▶
As someone who works in small companies, and had to endure developers who were using gitlab as "offsite backup" or I guess "push-based 'does this compile?' workflow", please don't do this. CI minutes are rarely free, and for damn sure are not "glucose free". If you can't be bothered to run the local compilation step for your project, that is a wholly different code smell