How to commit better with Git

Commits are the visible blocks of work of a programmer’s craft. Yet it seems that so little effort goes toward crafting a good git commit. In this video, I will talk about why I think it is important to care more about the commits that we push into the world.

In this tutorial, I will talk about how you can write better commit messages and what the git best practices are, and how they relate to the GitHub commit message conventions. We will dissect the anatomy of a good commit message and look into how you can use interactive rebase to reformat and combine the commits you want to push to your git repository after the fact.

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Questions of the day
■ Do you have rules for your commit messages?
■ What’s the most important point for you when it comes to commits?

Interactive Rebasing:
■ https://hackernoon.com/beginners-guide-to-interactive-rebasing-346a3f9c3a6d

Sources:
■ https://sandofsky.com/workflow/git-workflow/
■ https://chris.beams.io/posts/git-commit/
■ http://who-t.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-commit-messages.html
■ https://github.com/torvalds/subsurface-for-dirk/blob/master/README.md#contributing
■ https://www.git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Distributed-Git-Contributing-to-a-Project#_commit_guidelines

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