when you're bug-hunting, smaller single-change commits make it far, far easier to track down and kill the bug. This is true, but with the caveat that each of t

when you're bug-hunting, smaller single-change commits make it far, far easier to track down and kill the bug. This is true, but with the caveat that each of those commits needs to basically work. If you have untestable commits, things work less well, and maybe it's worth having slightly larger commits so that they will be testable.