The preferred version control system in the ruby world is named “git.” The name doesn’t really have a meaning. Its inventor, Tim Berners-Lee, who also happens to be the inventor of the linux operating system, indicates that its meaning is as varied as his mood at the time he’s thinking about it.
This week’s Friday guest speaker dove into git, some of the nitty-gritty of how it works, and how important it is to be descriptive in the message you include with each commit. You want other people – and more importantly, yourself – to be able to figure out what the heck you thought you were doing when you saved this particular work of coding art into the source control system.
I was originally taught to make really, really short commit messages, a habit I’m going to have to un-learn.