Was digging through a project at work today where some guy in 2014 made 100+ commits in a single day and the only one that had a comment said "upgrading to v4.0".
git commit -m “minor tweaks”
+3,276 -4,724
> Bug fixes. Too many to count.
I had one of those and it was two in the night and I was tired and forgot what I did and committed
stuff, I dunno.But normally I’m a good boy and prefix with the ticked id and write down the change and attempted fix.
Conventional commits all the way! Even if I don’t use the keywords (feat, fix, etc.) I always write the comment in imperative tense; the message should tell you what happens if you merge it.
I totally agree.
Right now I’m on a new project with a teammate who likes to rebase PR branches, and merge with merge commits to “record a clean history of development”. It’s not quite compatible with the atomic-change philosophy of conventional commits. I’m thinking about making a case to change style, but I’ve already failed to argue the problem of disruption when rebasing PR branches.
Enforced by pre-commit, conventional commits has cleaned up our commit logs and changelog so much.
That’s pretty neat. Is there a forked version that adds ticket number as a mandatory first class citizen? Cause that’d be darn near perfect.
You get two options.
Normally it’s a squashed commit of everything in a feature, with a commit message like:
[JIRA-1234] - Descriptive but Concise Name of FeatureBut every now and then it’s multiple commits like:
quick fix Ugh, fix typo fuck fuck why doesn’t it work Oh, I’m stupidFollowed by
fixed formattingfinal formatting fixyou gotta be kidding me, fuck you, detekt!Bro, squash merge
Sure, but before squashing you gotta commit
Or if you’re using feature branches, rebase, squash, and force push before opening the MR
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I feel like this might be a good case for LLMs… Auto git commit suggestions based on the diff.
There are already some attempts but I don’t think it will work, harmful even. Best case scenario, the AI can understand the code as well as a senior engineer from another company. All they can know without the context is what was changed, which is useless. We need the reason why the commit was made, not what was changed. The info is not there in the first place for the AI to try to extract.
@CanadianNomad @lucas Awesome idea, yeah I can totally see that working well :)
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If it does, I haven’t seen it… I’d be happy to test drive it.
I simply commit to master with the message “git commit”.
ah so you are the dev from 2014
I call it job security
The change written as a command
Until I get frustrated by something and just start committing “yeet”
My commits tend to be pretty verbose. Here’s an example log from one of my projects.
I follow the standard imperative style for the commit title, and then I use the body to summarize any important internal changes, reflect on the overall project status (for example, what milestones this commit crosses or what other work it might enable or require), and state what I’m going to work on next. I’m sure some people find it too wordy, but I like having the commit history show lots of details about the overall status.
Edit: I always have a descriptive summary, i.e., never one word commits or similar.
you are a pro and I aspire to be you
I’m not sure I do. I wouldn’t want to read all that just to find the item that broke. Might be faster to read the code.
That’s why
git log --onelineexists ;)I use
alias gl='git log --graph --abbrev-commit --no-decorate --date=format:'\''%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'\'' --format=format:'\''%C(8)%>|(16)%h %C(7)%ad %C(8)%<(16,trunc)%an %C(auto)%d %>|(1)%s'\'' --all'It will change your world.That is sexy. My only problem is that I tend to run my Git operations in a pretty small
tmuxpane on the side of my editing pane, so that layout ends up being too wide to fit well. I’ll definitely keep that alias around for when I have a full screen though!Haha yea I have written a number of
gitanddockeraliases over the years that are permanently in mydotfiles. I’m always inscreenbut perhaps will get into this newfangledtmux.
Woa…
They fluxuate wildly between short and informative messages like “fixed regex validation on property A” and “I fucking hate prettier” when the build pipeline fails because I had a line that was 2 characters too long.
On projects I setup I have prettier run as part of a commit hook. All files will be formatted at all times
When I eventually (usually) rebase, declarative statements of what the commit would accomplish if applied.
When I am testing CICD or generally need to push more frequently for whatever reason, it’s humor and angst all the way.
> Ffffffuuuuuuuuu
> Pls, why
> Okay yeah that was important I guess.
> (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
I’ve had commits called fuck
- “progress on [1], fixed linting [2]”
- “[1] completed, setup for [2]”
- “[3] and [4] completed”
- “fixed formatting”
- “refactoring [1] and [2]”
- “fix variable typos”
- “update logic in [2]”
- “revert package.json and regenerate package-lock”
All my commits have comments. I generally commit after completing a ‘block’ objective, a describe what that was but in very simple terms mostly in regards to the file/section with the most significant logic changes. I don’t always specify the file if I did tiny typos/linting/annotation across a bunch of them, because the logic is unaffected I know that the differences will be visible in the commit history.
My weakness is that I don’t do it often enough. If I’m working on [2] for several hours, I’ll only commit when I consider it minimally-viable (completed 2), or when moving between machines ([further] progress on 2). And I have a bad habit of not pushing every time I commit, just at the end of the day or when moving between machines (though a messy rebase hopefully made that lesson stick), or if somebody else on the team wants to review an issue I’m having.
I try (my best) to follow https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/
I try to follow the BLUF pattern: Bottom line up front. The first line is as short a description of the change (“Re-fixed a bug where a URL without a verb could crash the bot.”) with some detail following (“I thought I caught that a couple of years back…”)
I try to save the detail for the code itself: Comments describe what I was thinking at the time for context, the code is the code. I don’t replicate the code comments in the commit message because having the same thing in two places means having to keep two things up to date, and that rarely goes well.
I like my company’s style:
For issues:
- [program][deliverable] did this to fix that
Problem: symptoms of the problem that future devs can use to figure out its the same problem
Root cause: why this is broken
Solution: how I fixed it, including the scope
Testing: what testing it has it gone through
ah nice. we include the backlog # in our branch name.
Developer Initials - Jira ticket number which includes the project abbreviation and the ticket number - brief description:
DA - HHGTTG-42 - fix question answer format
If you need details you look in the ticket.
Developer intials seems a tad redundant since the commit is tied to author(s). But I guess it is only 2 extra char
