A tool to record development history - warts and all
A tool to create a logical sequence of changes
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.
A title as uninformative as the single
.commit messages he suggests writing.Bare minimums of
typo,refactor,whitespace,commentsare barely any effort – less than the thought it takes to name variables and functions.I really can’t agree with completely meaningless messages like
minorand.Git is a lot of things at once:
Meaningless messages like
minorand.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.