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grepsedawk 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Git commands I run before reading any code

Only two of the five depend on commit messages. Churn, authorship, and velocity work regardless. Even teams with terrible hygiene write "fix" when something breaks.

SoftTalker 3 months ago | [–]

As noted, authorship does not if commits are squashed, which seems to be common (I never do it).

KronisLV 3 months ago | [–]

> Even teams with terrible hygiene write "fix" when something breaks.

They might not include anything but the Jira ticket number, if the environment is truly lacking.

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