[Vm-dev] Commit process

[Eliot Miranda]

Hi Sean,


> On Mar 8, 2018, at 6:06 AM, Sean P. DeNigris <sean at clipperadams.com> wrote:
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> Hi guys, forgive my potentially naive intrusion, but I've noticed a lot of
> git commits which seem like noise. When I make commits like these - e.g.
> tweaking tiny details to pacify CI - I call it "programming by flopping
> around" ha ha. Anyway, as I've recently learned, a great practice is to
> perform these on another branch until things are working, and then squash
> all the commits into one before merging - usually pretty easy with git. That
> having been said, I know very little about the VM dev process, so if none of
> this applies, feel free to consider me a crazy old man mumbling things on
> the street corner to passersby ;)

Those commits were on a branch.  I agree that it's best not to push after each commit.  The emails however confused me too.  Is it possible for the commit emails to clearly state the branch name?

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