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Discussion on: How I Write Source Control Commit Messages

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Rachel Soderberg

Thank you! And that is a great point - a lot of times I commit every time I have finished a solid (hopefully working) portion of the card. Basically if I'm going to step away for a break and would regret losing what I built, I commit. If what I commit isn't working, I make sure to specify what doesn't work and why.

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Chris Karpyszyn

I would urge against commiting incomplete code. It really is a matter of opinion and process but for my team of 12 working on a large project keeping our git history clean is really helpful.

Some more tips to consider:

If you need to port code to another machine to continue working you can create a patch file:

git diff > patchfile
git apply patchfile

Or, if you do commit a temporary commit you could also squash the commits together using interactive rebase

git rebase -i HEAD~2