5 minimums for any perl script?

[Dave Hodgkinson]

On 3 Feb 2012, at 11:25, Smylers wrote:

> David Cantrell writes:
> 
>> On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 02:57:35PM +0000, Smylers wrote:
>> 
>>>  1 Make lots of small commits, one for each separable bug, feature,
>>>    refactoring, or whatever, and clearly described as much: make a
>>>    commit whenever you have something which is an unambiguous
>>>    improvement on the previous state, however small. ("Unambiguous"
>>>    cos if adding a feature has temporarily broken a different one,
>>>    that's not an improvement to somebody using the other feature;
>>>    don't commit till you've sorted it out.)
>> 
>> But do commit at the end of the day, even if it's still broken.  It's
>> OK to break your dev branches usually,
> 
> Hmmm, I'm not sure about that.

If you're doing CI on branches, you'll get to wear the pointy hat of ridicule
until you fix it.