I don't use commits as "atoms" of the work. Instead, I work at a PR level. I make PRs small and often, and try to make each one a small, self-contained piece of

I don't use commits as "atoms" of the work. Instead, I work at a PR level. I make PRs small and often, and try to make each one a small, self-contained piece of work, usually not more than a day or two. Practically this means that I commit and push whenever I feel like it, but then always squash the PR. At that point I create a clean and informative commit message. However, I leave a lot of context and information in GitHub rather than putting it in large commit messages. I rely heavily on GitHub's automatic linking of issues and pull requests for this.