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I have the following in my git config for handling these kinds of discussions:

    [jlouis@lady-of-pain ~]$ cat .gitconfig | grep phk
	phk = commit -a -m 'upd'


Does phk mean what I think it means? It's definitely funny and I'd definitely decline all your pull requests, but in company work it really doesn't matter because most people don't look into the history anyway. So yeah, it's probably a productivity tip.


It pays eternal homage to a toy-repository by phk in which that commit message occurs. I found it more fun than `git yolo`. And easier to type as well.

The other reason I have it is that when you are first building up a piece of software, you may want to snapshot it now and then, but you don't care too much for the archeology because things are still not working. Once you reach something which seems to work, you squash everything down and cut your first release with a meaningful commit.


Yeah in a feature branch it's also reasonable. `git yolo` is also nice.




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