[LRUG] A talk about telling stories with your commits?

[Joel Chippindale]

It sounds like there is interest in this. I will talk to Murray and see
when it can be scheduled.

J.

On 1 October 2014 12:16, Gabe da Silveira <gabe at websaviour.com> wrote:

> Yes!  This is one of my pillars of codebase hygiene.  Crafting your
> commits and their messages carefully, explaining what you were thinking,
> and providing a readable human description that sticks with the codebase
> forever is never a waste of time.  Not everyone has worked on a single
> Rails project for 7 years, but I have, and history curation pays enormous
> dividends.
>
> On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 9:45 AM, Joel Chippindale <
> joel.chippindale at futurelearn.com> wrote:
>
>> LRUGers
>>
>> I've been thinking for a while about doing a "Telling stories through
>> your commits" talk which covers the value of good git commit messages and
>> having simple linear commit histories which break up your work into logical
>> parts. I might mention phrases like 'every line of code is documented', and
>> 'minimum viable commit'.
>>
>> It's not really about Ruby, but I wondered whether you'd be interested in
>> hearing this at LRUG? If you are interested in it or have any questions do
>> say.
>>
>> J.
>>
>>
>>
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