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>> I’ve become a lot more sensitive to the impact of commit history itself This was something @whitequark taught me. Having a clean commit history is very impo

>> I’ve become a lot more sensitive to the impact of commit history itself This was something @whitequark taught me. Having a clean commit history is very important when looking back, and we we look back more often than most people thunk. Self contained commits with good messages is important. I'm still not great at concise descriptions but trying.

whstl 3y ago
+1 to this. I let my team pick one: very small PRs that get squashed when merging, or bigger PRs with well-separate commits and linear history that get merged normally. Having a bunch of “fix” and merge commits in the main branch history is terrible.