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Discussion on: How do you use git when working solo?

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Ben Halpern

Personally — I rarely branch off of main while working solo, but I do maintain high standards of committing regularly with good messages.

That's high level, but would love to hear a few more detailed answers from folks!

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Yechiel Kalmenson

I generally don't branch off main unless I'm doing a long and fairly involved feature. Mainly so it should be easy to throw the work away if it turns out to be too hard or too long to keep working on.

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leob

Same for me - using it essentially in the same way but rarely using other branches than master.

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Rubin

I second you Ben. I do maintain some quality commit messages following the conventional commit. That would help me in future track what went wrong and on which commit rather than scratching my head for an hour or two

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Renan Franca

I do the same. But I started to create branches to be committed to releasing a new version to myself 😅. So doesn't feel like an endless project 😆

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Dendi Handian

pretty much the same

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pO0q 🦄

I also branch off on very few occasion when working solo, but I use tags.

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SaptakBhoumik

I do the same:)