Really depends on other changes. Say you change some variable name since whoever was there last forgot to rename something while they did refactoring. Couple da

Really depends on other changes. Say you change some variable name since whoever was there last forgot to rename something while they did refactoring. Couple days later someone fixes a bug that is related to this variable in some other way. Now you can't simply back port the bug fix commit into earlier release because it relies on a commit that introduces a feature that is not wanted/needed. Obviously fix is simple enough either edit the commit to also contain the variable change or make a tiny "dummy" commit that just contains the fix. Now whoever is making this decision is cursing you since you could have just made the dummy commit in the first place and prevented this extra work that went into figuring out when the bug fix commit alone wasn't working/compiling.