Conventional Commits
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A specification for adding human and machine readable meaning to commit messages
    • RonSijm@programming.dev
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      1 year ago

      Come on, just "stuff" is way too vague...

      It's either "fixed stuff" for a 3k LoC commit where you moved a bunch of stuff around, or "Added stuff" for a 5k+ LoC commit if you actually added anything new

      • Kevin Lyda@programming.dev
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        1 year ago

        And then

        git ci -am "Addressed performance issue in flurbin module

The flubin module was designed as a successor to the flurbar module
which took in...
[...500 line essay on the hostory, problem and solution deleted...]

Hopefully this will fully fix the issue discussed."

        for a one character change that adds an additional, and unrequired, semicolon.

  • sim642@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Automatically determining a semantic version bump (based on the types of commits landed).

    That's overly optimistic. It'll be wrong the moment one person forgets one exclamation mark in one commit message. And it might not even be their fault if it's not clear at the time it causes breaking changes somewhere downstream.

    You can't replace proper release engineering.