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Discussion on: Clean Git History is Kinda Overrated

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Les Orchard • Edited

Yeah, I'd really disagree with this. Clean git commits have come in handy for me over the years for any project that lasts more than a year, has more than 100 commits, is touched by more than 3 people.

Multiple times even just this past week, I've used history and blame (really unfortunate name, btw) on a work project to see when & why things happened in a particular file and who I can ask about it. Commits where unrelated changes are tangled or where a unit of related changes is spread across several commits make it harder to do that detective work months after the fact. Comments in code are great, but deleted comments tell no tales.