Re: Should commits rather be buildable or small

[Tomas Volf]

On 2023-12-08 10:42:07 +0200, Saku Laesvuori wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm planning on refreshing Guix's haskell packages as my fix for
> https://issues.guix.gnu.org/66347 requires rebuilding all of them
> anyway. Should I try to keep commits small with only one update per
> commit (which is more work but managable if I don't care about the
> commits being buildable) or should I try to keep them buildable (i.e.
> update everything in one commit)? It is quite certain that most of them
> will not build after updating ghc or a subset of their dependencies, so
> making many small commits would cause nearly all of them to be
> unbuildable.

If for not other reason then to make git history bisectable, I think each commit
should be buildable.  But this is just a opinion from the peanut gallery.

Tomas

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