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Commit Messages to the rescue!

Talkat RailsConf 2019 · 2019-05-01..05-03· [developer-experience]

speaker

name:Christopher "Aji" Slater

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video:https://youtu.be/m9d1bsko4SE

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summary

Argues that commit messages act as time capsules and shows concrete practices that actually save debugging time: use commit template prompts, link issues so GitHub auto-closes, embed short rationale in the body, and tag messages for searchable history. Demonstrates tooling: git rebase -i (pick/reword/squash/fixup) to craft history, GitLens for annotated source, and setting core.editor="code --wait" to avoid vim. Offers real examples from Clearance and Rails and workflow automation tips that prove useful in review and rollback.

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