During my summer internship, my boss shared with us this blog post called How to Write a Git Commit Messsage by Chris Beams. After reading through it, I knew there were others in this community who would greatly benefit from this information beyond myself. Enjoy!
-m “I goofed again, fixed it now though, I think” is a perfectly fine commit
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I like the xkcd philosophy:
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Included of course is the half-hearted attempt to separate features onto branches before giving up and committing everything straight to master again.
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git commit -m "derp"
But yes. Meaningful comments are much better.
The commit pre-hook and post-hook can be used to help add additional data automatically, enforce formatting, and lots of other fun things.
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Now I need to dig up some of my old ones and some out-of-context work ones.
As someone who is decently new to programming, this is very helpful, especially since one of my commits for a project I’m working on literally says
Can't figure this out. I'll get it eventually I guess (maybe)
Thanks!
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