thomas

How often am I supposed to commit and push to GitHub?

I work mostly on solo projects, so I treat my repo mostly as a backup feature, i.e., I might commit once at the end of each day, and even then in the least descriptive manner (“fixed some stuff”).

Should I be pushing every time I make one discrete update, which might be several times a day?

I feel that this may be one of those late realizations in life like when you accidentally find out you haven’t been flossing and brushing your teeth in the correct order

PhD in aviation ∩ climate science | Aviator, diver, Etherean, nexialist | Host of /diving /ethfinance /eth-staker /geopolitics /science /singapore /thomas

In the early stages of a solo project with big changes happening in many parts of a project, my experience is that rolling back via git is unlikely and tedious, so the rate of commits is not important. Once a project is more stable or involves multiple developers, then clean commits with discrete feature changes or bug fixes (and clear commit messages!) become useful and important.