Add daily email for 2024-09-02

No-one sees your refactor commits

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+title: No-one sees your clean-up commits
+date: 2024-09-02
+permalink: daily/2024/09/02/no-one-sees-your-clean-up-commits
+tags:
+    - software-development
+    - refactoring
+    - git
+    - automated-testing
+    - test-driven-development
+cta: d7eol
+snippet: |
+    No-one sees your clean-up commits.
+---
+
+When you're working on a task - [whether you're making it work or making it good][0], you can commit your code changes as often as you like.
+
+You should definitely commit your changes every time you have a working iteration, even if it's not the complete or final version, or even if the code doesn't pass all the coding standards and static analysis checks.
+
+Things can be fixed or improved in subsequent commits.
+
+You can amend or squash commits locally so your clean-up and work-in-progress commits are removed before you push your final version to your remote repository.
+
+Whilst test-driven development says you should work in small feedback loops and steps, you don't need to push every commit as you wrote them.
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+Until you run `git push`, your commits are yours and yours only.
+
+You have the opportunity to tidy up and organise your changes - making your commits easier to review and more likely to be approved in a code review.
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+[0]: {{site.url}}/daily/2024/08/31/make-it-work-then-make-it-good