alt Hacker News> No one is ever going back and reading individual commits
I do, regularly! In a repository where care has been taken, it can be super valuable when tracking down a bug or regression, and understanding the intent of the author
> No one is ever going back and reading individual commits
I do, regularly! In a repository where care has been taken, it can be super valuable when tracking down a bug or regression, and understanding the intent of the author
The debate between these who don't squash and these who do is the debate between these who use the history for bugfixing and those who don't. And I think not using it is throwing away a super valuable tool that can reduce the fix ETA by an order of magnitude.