Git: The Fellowship of the Commit – Best Practices for Solo Devs and Teams

The Quest Begins (The "Why")

I still remember the first time I tried to track down a bug that only showed up after midnight. I opened my terminal, typed git log, and was greeted by a wall of commits that read like a toddler’s grocery list:

* 7a9c3f1 (HEAD -> main) fix stuff

* 4b2e8a1 update

* f1d9c6b wip