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   My Personal Vim configuration, made to travel.

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2. golang_ctci golang_ctci Public

   Working my way through cracking the coding interview in Go, because I want to learn it

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3. ft-frontend ft-frontend Public

   Frontend code for the family photo sharing blog I'm building

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4. whassat whassat Public

   Multilingual object detection in <6MB of neatly encapsulated javascript

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5. fhoopz fhoopz Public

   Simple fantasy hoops in slack

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6. Commit Hygiene; a treatise on the Wh... Commit Hygiene; a treatise on the Whys and Hows

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   ## Introduction

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   Commits (or changesets/patches) are the effective results of a developer's coding efforts. They describe a delta, or difference in contents that all other developers using a given codebase should also apply to their copies of the codebase, keeping it moving forward towards a common goal.

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   It would seem apparent that there exist "better" and "worse" ways of creating, describing, and otherwise talking about these individual changes, but actually nailing down a consensus definition of "good" or "best" is often tricky. What follows here is one experienced developer's opinion of why it matters and what "good" means, along with some links to back that up.