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What were your misconceptions about Git when you first started? (programming.dev)
submitted 2 years ago* by [M] to c/git@programming.dev
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I used CVS and ClearCase before moving into Git, and it took me some time to adjust to the fact that the cost of branching in Git is much much less than ClearCase. And getting into the "distributed" mindset didn't happen overnight.

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[–] 3 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

If the MR is anything bigger than a completely trivial change in a file or 2, it most likely should be broken into multiple commits.

A feature is not atomic. It has many parts that comprise the whole.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    In that case the feature is multiple MRs.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That's excessively bureaucratic to the point of being useless in most cases.

    Hard and fast rules are generally bad and "squash everything" is pretty much a by definition hard and fast rule with the result being "I'm just not going to care that much about my commit messages."

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