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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.
Interview prep for this lesson
Practice these questions aloud after reading—each links to a full structured answer.
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