<div dir="ltr"><div>Haha, no worries. Thanks for getting back to me.<br><br></div>Dmitri<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 12:38 PM, Joel Chippindale <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joel.chippindale@futurelearn.com" target="_blank">joel.chippindale@futurelearn.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Just to round this conversation off (many months later).<div><br></div><div>This talk went ahead in January, so thanks to all of you who came and for your questions afterwards.</div><div><a href="https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/6128-telling-stories-through-your-commits" target="_blank">https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/6128-telling-stories-through-your-commits</a></div><div><br></div><div>If you prefer reading to watching, then more recently Seb wrote a blog post on the subject.</div><div><a href="https://about.futurelearn.com/blog/telling-stories-with-your-git-history/" target="_blank">https://about.futurelearn.com/blog/telling-stories-with-your-git-history/</a></div><div><br></div><div>And last week, Mal published an example of one of our commits as a blog post.</div><div><a href="https://about.futurelearn.com/blog/a-commit-message-from-our-repo-2/" target="_blank">https://about.futurelearn.com/blog/a-commit-message-from-our-repo-2/</a></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>J.</div></font></span></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 2 October 2014 at 11:53, Joel Chippindale <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joel.chippindale@futurelearn.com" target="_blank">joel.chippindale@futurelearn.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">It sounds like there is interest in this. I will talk to Murray and see when it can be scheduled.<span><font color="#888888"><div><br></div></font></span><div><span><font color="#888888">J.</font></span><div><div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 1 October 2014 12:16, Gabe da Silveira <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gabe@websaviour.com" target="_blank">gabe@websaviour.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 9:45 AM, Joel Chippindale <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joel.chippindale@futurelearn.com" target="_blank">joel.chippindale@futurelearn.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div dir="ltr">LRUGers<div><br></div><div>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'.<br></div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><span><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>J.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></font></span></div>
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