Comment by AStrangeMorrow
4 hours ago
I also like meaningful commit names. But am sometimes guilty of “hope this works now” commits, but they always follow a first fix that it turns out didn’t cut it.
I work on a lot of 2D system, and the only way to debug is often to plot 1000s of results and visually check it behaves as expected. Sometimes I will fix an issue, look at the results, and it seems resolved (was present is say 100 cases) only to realize that actually there are still 5 cases where it is still present. Sure I could amend the last commit, but I actually keep it as a trace of “careful this first version mostly did the job but actually not quite”
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