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title: Optimise for revertability
date: 2024-05-10
permalink: archive/2024/05/10/optimise-for-revertability
tags:
- software-development
- git
cta: ~
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If you needed to revert a commit in a codebase, could you do so easily?
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There are two things I avoid when merging changes in Git.
Merge commits and squashing commits.
Both make it hard to revert changes if needed once they've been merged, such as a major bug in production and you quickly need to roll back.
Merge commits are difficult to revert and if a commit has been squashed into one larger commit, you can't revert it without also reverting everything else.
Working with small, unsquashed commits makes it simple to revert a specific one and only that one.
If I need to revert something, I want to be able to do as simply and specifically as possible.
Optimise for revertability.