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Re:Squash your commits by junke on Friday April 01, 2016 @08:28PM (#11409569)
That's why you can "skip" a commit during git-bisect[0].

I had to find when a bug was introduced, and guess what? it was inside a single massive commit touching hundreds of files. I prefer atomic commits with good messages, thanks.

[0] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-bisect

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Re:Squash your commits by voltagex_ on Saturday April 02, 2016 @01:45AM (#11410412)
Yeah, I wonder if I could write a checkin policy for to enforce "small" changes without it becoming too annoying.
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