Principle developer tip: rewrite history to make yourself seem smarter.
Soft reset the whole branch and commit a series of atomic and semantic patches (eg separating code, test, and refactor changes) that tell a clean narrative of the changeset to reviewers, future blamers.
oh god, it’s me
git reset head~9 git add -A git commit -am 'Rebased lol' git push -fF
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Senior developer tip: squash the evidence.
Principle developer tip: rewrite history to make yourself seem smarter.
Soft reset the whole branch and commit a series of atomic and semantic patches (eg separating code, test, and refactor changes) that tell a clean narrative of the changeset to reviewers, future blamers.
Do you put effort into your commit messages before the rewrite, or just write something quick for yourself and then put in the effort later?
Depends, but usually I will put in the effort up front and maybe tweak them in an in[eractive rebase, or just manually copy+paste.
If they’re worth saving. Sometimes you have to kill your darlings though
And then my team squashes those commits 😩
git commit --amend --no-editThis helped me countless times…
Senior developer tip: Squash
the evidencemanagement🫂