“Fix”
With 400 lines changed over 50 files
“updates”
“feat: stuff”
Guilty of this one myself.
I had a commit recently that was like 2000 lines changed over 6 files. Really should have been a smaller issue.
Y tho??? Holy shit. Commits should be like functions. One thing and one thing only. Maybe a small group of files like the same change over multiple config files. 50 is insane to me.
“Bits were fiddled, possibly in the right way”
My butterfly was having a bad day so I can’t be sure, sorry
‘Change’ if I’m feeling particularly chaotic.
git commit -m $(date)
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I actually did this once…I swear there was a good reason. I promise it wasn’t anywhere that mattered.
Edit: I think it was a personal journal repo that I wanted daily versions of, but couldn’t be bothered to actually check in.
See jira-blah: is my go-to. Sometimes there’s even a jira at that location/number 🤔
Every time I commit I have to look through
git diff, figure out what the hell I actually did, come up with something intelligent to say about jt, possibly split the commit into multiple commits if I changed multiple things, do some shuffling withgit resetandgit add…For some reason all my personal projects are all like 4K SLoC with 50 total commits, all of which include apologies for not doing more smaller commits
There’s a bigger issue than your commit message if you don’t even know what you just coded and are committing.
You see, sometimes I code something, go to bed before finishing it, come back, decide not to commit because then I’d have to think of a commit message and I just want to code, start working on an unrelated feature, do that for a couple days, get distracted by life stuff and put the project down for a few weeks/months, rinse and repeat, and then I finally get around to writing a commit message because I’m about to start a huge change and I want a restore point and I’m like. Okay, it’s been like 3 months since my last commit, I’m pretty sure my code can now do something it couldn’t 3 months ago but come on, I can’t even remember what I had for lunch last Thursday
I’m well aware this is terrible practice but I don’t know how to stop doing it
Commit more often. Maybe work in a different feature branch, and don’t be afraid to commit your half-working crappy code. If it’s a personal project/fork, it’s totally acceptable to commit often with bad commit names and small unfinished changes: you can always amend/squash the commits later. That’s how I tend to work: create a new branch, work on the feature, rebase and merge (fast forward, no merge commit). Also, maybe don’t jump around working on random features :P
Jumping around to random features is how my ADHD brain works most efficiently.
Good news, TDD is methylphenidate of software development!
but…but new feature shiny
Fr tho this is all excellent advice
You can help yourself a lot here by making commits every time you make a meaningful change. A feature doesn’t need to be complete to commit major checkpoints along the path to completion. That’s what feature branches are for. Commit often. It’ll help you think of messages, and it’ll help you recover in the case of catastrophe.
you can setup a on-save script to force you to commit when the number of changes is greater than a certain number from the previous commit.
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Nah, I’m that guy, I gave your repo a star for the effort, but I’m not reading your history.
it means you commit too infrequently. your commit messages should be able to describe what u just did within 10 words.
psst, git add -p
Remind me what -p does.
Edit: never mind - I see it mentioned below.
Patch add - it shows you particular changes you made, and you choose whether or not to include them in the commit. (You can then use
git stash -kto stash only the changes you did not add, so you can test before you commit.)
I spend much time splitting them up inside visual studio by file and individual lines changed to try and separate my many simultaneous changes into several somewhat usable commits. If I was stupid enough to make some big refactor at the same time I might just have to throw in the towel… It’s really painful after a few weeks to try and pick up the pieces of what I was doing but never commited too lol.
Just use What The Commit.
You can also create a git alias:
git config --global alias.yolo ‘!git add -A && git commit -m “$(curl --silent --fail https://whatthecommit.com/index.txt)”’
Now you can just type ‘git yolo’ to create a commit!
“Make Sure You Are Square With Your God Before Trying To Merge This”
Full send.
Well such an informative reply! Thanks mate 👍
“Chuck Norris Emailed Me This Patch… I’m Not Going To Question It”
My first script ever was written in lua for a world of warcraft macro to spit out chuck norris one liners. People in the barrens hated me.
Thanks for that, I’ve been laughing like a little kid:
“hoo boy”
“lol”
“Become a programmer, they said. It’ll be fun, they said.”
I can feel those so well! :')
Well that’s about half my commit messages that are going to be nonsense on weekends projects, now. Thank you!
git commit -m “changed somethings “
git push origin master
You forgot this
--forceflag.Do you always have to do origin master? I’ve seen it where sometimes just git push works and other times not.
uh in any actual company you almost never push to origin master. so I think it’s a joke.
Not with that attitude! /s
Force push Fridays!
In most actually companies you can try push to origin master, but it’ll likely get rejected by the repo’s security policies.
I was being more evil than that, saying that if one is gonna push direct to
main, might as well maximize the possible damage to everyone else’s branch.Lol why not just delete the whole project from GitHub… I mean, everyone has a copy, right?😱
That’s part of the joke, I think. If it’s a repo more than just you use, you would almost never push directly to the main branch.
where it Just Works, the branch is set up to track a remote branch
https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Branching-Remote-Branches
I tired that, still was having issues, weeeird.
I’m using Copilot for it right now. It works on half of the cases.
That’s about 300% better than my average!
For me, it was my boss gave me a programming task which he knew would take hours or a day or two… and then 15 minutes later tells me to “switch focus” and do a menial task that any of my five coworkers could do 🤦♂️
do
git commit -vand then just summarize the diff you have in your editor in a human readable form.Don’t just summarize the content though, summarize the rationale or how things connect. I can read your diff myself to see what changed, I want to know the logical connections, the reason you did X and not Y, etc.
Or just say “stuff” and provide that context in the PR description separately, no need to overdo the commit log on a feature branch if you’re using squash merges from your PR.
P1000x this.
I can read a diff.
I need to know why.
No, a code comment isn’t good enough, it’s out of date after the next commit.
Code comments for "why"s that persist. Commits for why’s that are temporary.
If you need to run X before Y, add a comment. If you added X before why because it was easier, leave it in a commit
If you need to run X before Y…
Add a test that asserts that.
With a comment on the test detailing why it matters so people don’t just assume the test is out of date when it fails.
And ideally test the underlying result of x before y, not the fact that x is called before y.
And while we’re at it, assert in Y that X has been called, and again comment the reason for the preconditions.
The usual reason would be “because coworkers”
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“stuff”
“Commit”
Oh god I feel so called out. I wish I paid more attention to my commit messages but I’m usually too busy fixing the directory structure and refactoring. Sigh.
My company collapses into a single commit at merge so idgaf what the commit message is anymore. Though I would prefer not collapsing them.
Master should just have the feature description commits, not the hundred commits it took to get there after refactoring the code for the 3rd time and pulling changes from master since it’s taken so long to get done.
I prefer that approach. We work with smaller tasks, so it makea more sense, plus it helps keep the master clean and if you want a more detailed view of the specific commits, you just have to click on the link to the PR. It’s a better way to organise it IMO
Yeah I worked at a place like that, but it made sense because we were also expected to keep PRs small, so a good commit message for several squashed ones was perfectly fine.
You should not use
-m, you should write commit body!Why? My coworkers are barely literate and won’t read anything with more than 4 or 5 words, writing a commit body would be a waste of time.
Nah, most commits don’t need a body
[conventional commits] (https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/) will save you.
or maybe commitizen if you’d like not to write them by hand.
and maybe commit and tag version, which will create changelogs for you of you follow semver“blah”
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