The author runs his tests after his partial commits. He does this by stashing the remaining changes, testing the newly-committed code, and then continuing to ma

The author runs his tests after his partial commits. He does this by stashing the remaining changes, testing the newly-committed code, and then continuing to make partial commits. Here's the example in the article: % git stash % make test ... OK % git stash pop Also keep in mind that the initial tree contains WIP commits that are unlikely to work or pass tests, so reordering commits can hardly make things worse.