• grrgyle
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        282 years ago

        Principle developer tip: rewrite history to make yourself seem smarter.

        Soft reset the whole branch and commit a series of atomic and semantic patches (eg separating code, test, and refactor changes) that tell a clean narrative of the changeset to reviewers, future blamers.

          • grrgyle
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            12 years ago

            Yeah it sucks. If the commits are really helpful, you can just paste the git log into the PR/MR/CR body after it’s been merged

        • Elise
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          22 years ago

          Do you put effort into your commit messages before the rewrite, or just write something quick for yourself and then put in the effort later?

          • grrgyle
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            22 years ago

            Depends, but usually I will put in the effort up front and maybe tweak them in an in[eractive rebase, or just manually copy+paste.

            If they’re worth saving. Sometimes you have to kill your darlings though