On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 4:43 AM, Warren Young <w...@etr-usa.com> wrote:
> Well, you may have noticed that I can be verbose. :) > This is the first project i've been on where the topic has even come up. > Also, I think the tendency for a single commit to do multiple things is > more common in single-person projects, where the pressure to use branches > for complicated changes is lower. > > When you’re working on an experimental branch, it’s easy to commit early > and often, since you aren’t affecting anything else, whereas when you’re > working on the trunk, you tend to wait to commit until the feature is > perfect. Functionality accumulates, so that by the time it comes time to > check it all in, it takes a bit of work to explain what it all does. > In which case something like my two-week-long commit at work last Friday typically suffices: "Implemented Jira ticket PROJ-1234." ;) All other details were attached to the ticket (and, even there, nobody's ever really gonna read them). -- ----- stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ http://gplus.to/sgbeal "Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do." -- Bigby Wolf
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