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Julian Engelhardt

I was able to improve this gut feeling about when to commit a lot. Basically I was forcing this technique on myself and, as many others already have stated, create a commit for each subtask (if the project was well managed and had tasks and subtasks, of course). Although all of this comes more naturally to me now, I still often end up mixing two or three commits, but I think saying "aw, crap" and throwing all the changes into one commit is the wrong way then. What I do instead is take the time, extract the single logical units from my pile of changes (if you have a git client that fits your way of working that should be doable - not naming any because taste is different) and commit them one by one. This can be tedious but enforces to remember to commit early next time - there are things you have to learn the hard way.