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

[Dmitri Grabov]

Haha, no worries. Thanks for getting back to me.

Dmitri

On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 12:38 PM, Joel Chippindale <
joel.chippindale at futurelearn.com> wrote:

> Just to round this conversation off (many months later).
>
> This talk went ahead in January, so thanks to all of you who came and for
> your questions afterwards.
>
> https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/6128-telling-stories-through-your-commits
>
> If you prefer reading to watching, then more recently Seb wrote a blog
> post on the subject.
> https://about.futurelearn.com/blog/telling-stories-with-your-git-history/
>
> And last week, Mal published an example of one of our commits as a blog
> post.
> https://about.futurelearn.com/blog/a-commit-message-from-our-repo-2/
>
> J.
>
> On 2 October 2014 at 11:53, Joel Chippindale <
> joel.chippindale at futurelearn.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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