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And no, I don't go back and split commits.

After all, that will make it all the more fun the next time you are under a deadline, and you are wondering why that commit broke something. You have the added benefit of having to imagine what you were thinking a few months ago, in addition to debugging. Fun!

In other news, writing tests is a waste of time when you are under a deadline. It mostly works in the browser!




Ease up on the sarcasm. I get it, you write perfectly descriptive commit messages and your apps are perfectly tested. I was cutting the original committer some slack because he was guilty of something that most of us are guilty of.




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