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Git Commit Best Practices — Complete Guide
Git Commit Best Practices — Complete Guide: free step-by-step lesson with examples, common mistakes, and interview tips — part of Microservices with .NET on Toolliyo Academy.
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Git Commit Best Practices
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Professional · 4 — Real projects · ~10 min · Module 10: Git and GitHub
What is this?
Good commits are small, focused, and use clear messages — feat(order): publish event after save — so git log tells a story.
Why should you care?
When checkout breaks at 2am, git bisect finds the bad commit faster if commits are atomic.
See it live — copy this example
Create a Web API project (dotnet new webapi), paste the code, then run dotnet run.
git commit -m "feat(order): publish OrderPlaced after SaveChanges"
git commit -m "fix(payment): handle duplicate charge idempotency"
git commit -m "chore(ci): add GitHub Actions build for Order.Api"Run Example »
This lesson uses terminal or setup steps. Run commands on your computer — the live editor appears on coding lessons.
What happened?
- Conventional commits (feat, fix, chore, docs) help automate changelogs.
- One logical change per commit.
Try it yourself
- Rewrite your last three commits messages to conventional format.
- Split a large uncommitted diff into two commits.
- Run git log --oneline -5
- Change a string or route in the example and save — watch Swagger or the RabbitMQ Management UI update.
- Break the code on purpose (remove a semicolon), read the error message, then fix it.
Remember
Small atomic commits. Conventional commit messages. log should read like release notes.