Triangle.rb Notes - Deliberate Git
Deliberate Git
2013-08-13 by Stephen Ball (Meetup) (blog post)
Git Commits
- last forever
- extremely searchable
- available to everyone
Commit messages have a short, imperitive subject, followed by a longer description about why. Write final commit messages as if a coworker has sent an email asking for a summary
Commit Subjects
- written in the present tense
- written as a command (because its a todo item)
Commit Body
- can be informal
- describe the "why?"
- message to the team
Commits tell us:
- what the change does
- why it's neccessary
- commits are tied to the code change
- they are comments that expire automatically
Flow
- WIP commits while coding
- commit frequently
- rewrite your commits
git rebase -i
- rewrite commits
- remove commits
- combine commits
- reorder commits
Searching History
git log --grep="commit contents"git log -S"diff contents"