Re:Expressive Writing Cools Brain on Stressful Tasks
by chicago_wade on Sunday September 17, 2017 @03:55PM
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I have also found that it helps to put swear-words in the commit messages when I'm struggeling a lot with something.
Once I get to that point I will stop working on that specific problem until the next day, but swearing about it in the commit message helps me not think about it anymore and also when I come back to it the next day I can see from the commit what I was struggeling with.
Obviously only do this for repositories that you aren't sharing with anyone.
You could also do it in a shared repo if you don't push the commits and you squash them first. Personally I'm not a squash kind of person and I'd also fear that I pushed without remembering to squash even if I really were planning on squashing.
Once I get to that point I will stop working on that specific problem until the next day, but swearing about it in the commit message helps me not think about it anymore and also when I come back to it the next day I can see from the commit what I was struggeling with.
Obviously only do this for repositories that you aren't sharing with anyone.
You could also do it in a shared repo if you don't push the commits and you squash them first. Personally I'm not a squash kind of person and I'd also fear that I pushed without remembering to squash even if I really were planning on squashing.