A few months ago I was developing for a breaking change and realized that I wasn't committing anything. That's very much an SVN mindset where merging is so pain

A few months ago I was developing for a breaking change and realized that I wasn't committing anything. That's very much an SVN mindset where merging is so painful that you culturally just avoid it altogether. Git's emphasis on being distributed and branching and merging constantly meant that, once I pulled my head out of my ass and started committing locally, I was able to enjoy the benefits of source control while developing my breaking changes without affecting anyone. And later, when I merged my branch into the master, it turned out to be completely painless.