Documentation Tradeoffs and Why Good Commits Matter
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Argument: put documentation effort into git commit messages because they balance accessibility (editors show git blame, git log, VS Code and Atom integrations) and accuracy (messages travel with changed code). Demonstrations include a four‑year‑old PO number commit labeled "work in progress", messy CSS WIP commits, using rebase, --amend, and squash and merge to create atomic history, and using force-with-lease and the interactive tutorial learn git branching to safely rewrite history.
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