• grrgyle@slrpnk.net
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    4 months 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.

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        4 months 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

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      4 months 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?

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        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