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Development Tools Introduction to Git First Commits Viewing Changes to a File

Bethany Cooksey
Bethany Cooksey
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Posted by Bethany Cooksey
Bethany Cooksey
14,242 Points

How often do you recommend staging and committing your changes?

So I was wondering how often most developers stage and commit their new changes, because it seems that it could get very tedious very quickly.

Do you really recommend doing this for each little change so you can properly track your changes, or is it okay to just gauge whether or not a change is important enough?

And if so, do you have any helpful tips for gauging if a change is important enough to add and commit it?

That's a lot of questions, sorry. :)

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,248 Points

Organizations often have rules about when things must be submitted, but when none apply I generally only check in a completed change order that builds correctly and has been at least unit tested. Or in the absence of a change order, anything that affects the program operation or the UX (also when complete and tested).