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Oh Shit, Git?

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464 points Anon84 | 1 comments | 16 Jan 25 18:24 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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tantalor ◴[16 Jan 25 20:04 UTC] No.42730193[source]▶
I'm not a git user, but stuff like this really drives home the idea that "git commit" is meaningless, the only thing that matters is when your commits are pushed or merged.

It's like saving a textfile. Do you write a little message every time you save a file? No that's silly. Just move on.

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1. globular-toast ◴[16 Jan 25 21:40 UTC] No.42731265[source]▶
Commit is what causes git to make a copy of the file(s) internally. It's vitally important. But there is no point typing in silly messages like "more fixes" etc. What I do is make an initial commit with something like "(WIP) too feature", then keep doing amend commits until I'm happy, at which point I remove the "(WIP)" from the message.