This is apparently the subject of some debate. More specifically to me, it depends on what branch I'm on. If I'm on dev, I have no problem with big commits.

This is apparently the subject of some debate. More specifically to me, it depends on what branch I'm on. If I'm on dev, I have no problem with big commits. (For features I'll often set a bookmark [hg]- maybe even clone and work from the clone if it's risky). But if I'm on test or hotfixing on stable, I use very small commits so that I can easily graft (backport) back to dev. But at the very least I have more than one commit message like -FIX blah blah commit so can get from <name of other machine>