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Become a professional, then you'll commit every time you make a small bit of functionality. If you're doing massive changes like this, you haven't broken something after multiple days of code enough. When you do that and you have no idea what you broke it with and when, it conditions you towards small iterable chunks.
This. Instead of making commits time-based (for example once per hour or once per day), make them purpose-based (say, add a database migration in one commit, and change the color of a button in another one). This also makes it easy to cherry-pick or otherwise backport specific changes to different program versions gor example.
I learned this the hard way, I forgot to commit for a single day and got burned really bad when my regression tests failed and I could not trace the issue(it is called source control for a reason). I declared it was more efficient to revert back to the last commit than spend time fixing broken code that I had no fucking clue where it was and the only thing I had to go by was that it happened between two commits with a whole work day between.
I work a lot with the local history of the IDE, where I can also set labels to a current state. In addition, it creates its own labels like last time all tests were green etc.
Still, in one of my last project that really lived TDD, they made a good point that I should just push as often as I label, since that also triggers all sorts of other tests which I usually don't run locally, or not as often.
I had "rearrange code" checked once for a commit, and fortunately, it had automatically saved the exact state before that.
I don't get it
The image is from a reddit post. You can click on the link to read it if you want.
(Weird, I remember kbin rendering it as an embed...)
Ah, I get it now, so it's this https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fb0htg42kv89c1.png
That's way too slanderous, lol
More specifically, what's the connection to Reddit?
Me when I don't know at how many changes I should commit (the previous commit changed 2 characters):
For real, or when you should make the first and second commit.
Or worse, when you're too focused and start making a ton of changes, then you realize you haven't committed anything. Discovering I can stage ranges has made me fall for this way too many times, because I think I'll easily just go back and extract one atomic change at a time later (spoiler: it won't be easy ( ; ´ Д `))
as soon as you realize you can't easily contain your commit message within a 50-character conventional message (or slightly more if you wand to be more specific about the scope)
When you go to merge master into your feature branch but accidentally squash master in.
