David Thompson on his favorite Git commit: a single character fix, but with one hell of an explanation:
In a different organisation, from a different developer, this entire commit message might have been
change whitespace
, orfix bug
, or (depending on the team’s culture) some less than flattering opinions about the inventor of the non-breaking space. Instead, Dan took the time to craft a really useful commit message for the benefit of those around him. I’d like to step through a few of the ways I think this is a really good example.