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Tidy then push

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+title: Tidy then push
+date: 2025-02-11
+permalink: daily/2025/02/11/tidy
+tags:
+  - software-development
+cta: ~
+snippet: |
+  If you can, tidy your commits before pushing them for review.
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+As I said [in yesterday's email][0], sometimes you change your mind whilst working on something.
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+Maybe you change your approach and have a commit that supersedes an earlier one, fix a typo, or find a bug and need to revert a commit.
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+If you're pushing your changes to a branch for review, I suggest using `git rebase` to clean up your commits.
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+You can squash the typo fix into the commit that introduced the typo, or remove the original implementation that you later moved away from.
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+Whilst there is an option to squash all the commits when merging, I don't like it and prefer people to tidy their commits before pushing.
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+This means the commits are easier to review and you can keep the original commit history and all the context within the messages instead of a generic `Merge commit..` message.
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+[0]: {{site.url}}/daily/2025/02/10/refactoring