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Re:Dura is a background process that watches your Git reposi... by whoomp12342 on Monday January 03, 2022 @02:49PM (#29785610)
different strokes for different folks. I like to use my staging area as "I want to save this" until I get to a logical stopping point in my work. Then I commit it with its descriptive message. This way I can diff/reset against master while making progress, and show a nice clean progression of my work for who reviews it.

also, sometimes I just lump the whole thing into a PR because there arent more than one logical unit.

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Re:Dura is a background process that watches your Git reposi... by Quekid5 on Monday January 03, 2022 @03:26PM (#29786290)
You can still get do what you want if you commit every 60 seconds (or whatever). It's just about postponing any and all cleanup activity until you're ready to shared it with reviewers/the world.

(... but of course, by all means do what works for you. Just be aware that you might be missing out on something because you're artificially constraining your workflow.)

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Re:Dura is a background process that watches your Git reposi... by dijonman2 on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @08:35AM (#29794509)
A commit every 60s sounds terribly inconvenient unless it’s automatic. I share OP’s workflow patterns and it works for me.

I also don’t use an IDE.

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Re:Dura is a background process that watches your Git reposi... by Quekid5 on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @07:15PM (#29802979)
I don't mean 60s literally. I mean arbitrarily small commits at your own convenience.

You don't need to have even remotely working code when you commit, is the point. You just commit whenever. (It's almost like saving files, just commit.)

I think the word 'commit' might have been a mistake, now that I think about it. Maybe 'snapshot' would have been better.

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Re:Dura is a background process that watches your Git reposi... by whoomp12342 on Thursday January 13, 2022 @11:02AM (#29922198)
yeah, I mean its situational and sometimes I will do that, but 90% of the time staging does what I need for temp backups
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