Probably an impedance mismatch here, i think the parent is thinking in terms of git (or a.n. other DVCS) where constantly making atomic commits is very natural.

Probably an impedance mismatch here, i think the parent is thinking in terms of git (or a.n. other DVCS) where constantly making atomic commits is very natural. I suspect from what you're saying you're using something else. E.g. day to day i use subversion. It's possible to adopt this workflow in subversion but it definitely takes more effort on my part.