git commit -m “A spirit trapped within a tree, no mouth to scream or eyes to see. A cage of bark, a prison of wood. A thing of rage where nature stood.”
At the very least, please state which section you made small changes to, even if you are sure it’s not mentioning what or why.
“Small changes to a few sections.” There. Happy?
Love it.
While folks are thinking about git commit messages I will offer this.
My only criticism of the essay is that the most important bit is listed at number 7.
Pleasure by William Wallace
What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as she allows.No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide deez nuts in grass.No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, get high at night.No time to turn at Beauty’s glance,
And watch her gangly feet like once.No time to wait till her mouth can
Fit round that wide hog, whatup fam.A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.Shakespeare may have coined a lot of English words, but only Wallace can claim deez nuts.
cannot believe William Wallace gotem through time
he was fighting the english with his dope rhymes before he ever held the sword
Really neat, but man, wasn’t intending to get teary eyed in the meme community 🥹
Yeah me either, so I fixed it
If you write commit messages like this, at least have the decency of squashing them when merging. Thanks.
A PR for every tiny commit. You got it.
“Sometimes the best way to fix a bug is to introduce an unstable new feature that will later have many bug reports. But the code will now work. And was only written after email chain that har management involved.”
“This is a temporary fix only, and the feature flag it’s under should be turned off after pull request 203. Under no circumstances should bug reports 1923 and 2045 use this new feature to fix issues, even if hours of work can be saved using this ”
“I am blameless for any future issues caused by using this new feature. Here be dragons.”
“this is temporary test code that should be removed before delivery to the customer”
this is real
Nope. That’s a temporary solution™.
You should put this at the code, or at the flag documentation. The one place you it can’t go at all is in a commit message.
Have better docs in those places; but for a class A mess, like above, make sure the approvers see this front and center. Make them sign for it
Curate your commits, friends. They should be structured for the benefit of the reviewer. This can be accomplished with liberal use of interactive rebasing.
It’s fine, the reviewer doesn’t have time to actually look at the code anyway. Lgtm, ship it.
My best work happens between typing out random stuff and pulling my hair out in the squash and reordering
I keep putting that off, but maybe I should really dive into that.
Thanks for telling me about the TUI btw, I didn’t know we had that too now!
When in doubt, soft reset everything and commit from the ground up.
That’s also a good option
At a former workplace I created a leaderboard or most swears in commit messages lol
thank god now we’ve AI to do this
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Why not get them fired? Call me cruel anyone who feels like it, but leaving no sign of what has been done is just plain shit attitude to colleagues
I feel ya my home! This comment burns me with the feels of a thousand suns. I hate that it’s related so much to this.
Totally agree with y’all.
I knew a guy who said that this was meaningless, because all the changes can be seen in the code. Like, are you really asking for a human diff!? 🤬
Who needs a table of contents? Just read the book!
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Maybe you should write a script that spits out AI description for a commit and then run it for commits without a proper description? Since it doesn’t require any insight from the commit author it should work the same.
Can we at least mention, though, that that’s kind of nonsensical, too? Give me a *very* high-level summary of what changed, but then the rest of the commit message should be the why (unless that’s genuinely obvious, like when adding a feature).
If I actually want to know what changed, I can look at the code changes. I can’t find the why anywhere else, though. Nor can an LLM having to describe those random code changes.
I’m now tempted to do this for all several thousand commits in the main branch, and at the very least create a better changelog.
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this is literally the only thing I think is acceptable for AI to do for developers.
nobody reads commit history anyway and they always go straight to blame to find out who to kick the fuck out of.
And the blame has those commit messages. That is beside the fact that most authors may not even work there anymore
I don’t even waste my time anymore frankly. people just do a
git add .andgit commit -m "did some stuff".sorry, I’ve just worked with a lot of shitbag devs that honestly think of git as a flat filesystem that can’t even properly branch or merge.
personally, I still put in clear commits and even do patch level adds. from what I have experienced though, using AI to generate those commit messages based on actual changes would be a godsend compared to the fuckery I’ve had to deal with.
git commit -m ‘a meaningful message’
This is where I thought it was going as well.
I once found a commit message in our commit history that just said, “i hate git…” bcz they hadn’t changed anything, and I think it took a new line character and decided that they’d actually changed like 5 lines of code twhen they hadn’t.
It was the funniest shit, someone who was a senior lead for like 9 years that had left, and 5 years later I find that…
git commit -m “here is everything in this commit $(tar -czv . | base64)”
