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Senior developer tip: squash the evidence.

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Principle developer tip: rewrite history to make yourself seem smarter.

Soft reset the whole branch and commit a series of atomic and semantic patches (eg separating code, test, and refactor changes) that tell a clean narrative of the changeset to reviewers, future blamers.

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And then my team squashes those commits 😩

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Yeah it sucks. If the commits are really helpful, you can just paste the git log into the PR/MR/CR body after it’s been merged

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Do you put effort into your commit messages before the rewrite, or just write something quick for yourself and then put in the effort later?

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Depends, but usually I will put in the effort up front and maybe tweak them in an in[eractive rebase, or just manually copy+paste.

If they’re worth saving. Sometimes you have to kill your darlings though

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git commit --amend --no-edit

This helped me countless times…

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Senior developer tip: Squash the evidence management

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