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[-] Bougie_Birdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 4 weeks ago

I'm definitely writing useless git commit messages

For work, I at least include the Jira ticket id

For personal stuff, it's sweeping features stuffed into one commit that barely describes what was changed

[-] gnutrino@programming.dev 14 points 4 weeks ago

"Fixed stuff"
...
"Fixed for real this time"

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

What was the git flag to basically rewrite history again?

I've definitely been guilty of this, but if I can redo my changes in narrative form before I push I bet I won't have to.

[-] gnutrino@programming.dev 3 points 4 weeks ago
[-] blaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.io 2 points 4 weeks ago

Forcing myself to write in the format of Conventional Commits has helped me a lot to write better commit messages.

[-] funbreaker@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Looking at the website, Conventional Commits seems a little verbose for ny tastes but it probably helps actually communicate the changes so everyone is on the same page. Thanks for the tip!

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