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submitted 10 months ago by schalkneethling@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev
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[โ€“] Kache@lemm.ee 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

A title as uninformative as the single . commit messages he suggests writing.

Bare minimums of typo, refactor, whitespace, comments are barely any effort -- less than the thought it takes to name variables and functions.

I really can't agree with completely meaningless messages like minor and .

[โ€“] technom@programming.dev 5 points 10 months ago

Git is a lot of things at once:

  1. A tool to record development history - warts and all
  2. A tool to create a logical sequence of changes
  3. A tool to communicate intent and ideas to a maintainer

Meaningless messages like minor and . don't suit any of these roles - not even 1. Even when recording development history with all mistakes, you'd still need context when you look back at the history. Matklad is a well respected developer. I wonder why he's make such a bizarre claim.