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Helpful article for beginners, but. And it is a big but:
Anyone who uses
-amto commit all the things is, of course, in a state of sin.No, seriously. There is no amount of "I am in a hurry" or "lets take shortcuts" or "I know what I'm doing" justifies omitting the review your changes and adding them one by one instead if necessary. The amount of bugs I catch in the work of otherwise talented young engineers just because they used
-amas a "fire and forget" method to commit things is staggering. And it just leads to bad practices in general.Honestly, I wish more people would use
git add --patchinstead, and split up their commits to smaller ones, instead of just listing all the changes in a three line commit message, and forgetting half of it (because they won't notice what-amjust did for them).Wow,
git add --patchis excellent.I usually just review the staged diffs in VSCode, but I'm sure it'll come in handy.
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Really helpful feedback, thanks, I really appreciate that.
I will carefully revise about the points you mentioned and update the article real soon!
These were my only issues as well!
Final tips were the best ;)