git_commit_messages.md

Git Commit Messages

My standard git commit prefix message five character format. Keeping your git commit messages simple and clean allows for more important commits to stand out. More important commit messages can have any number of characters in prefix.

GIT

• 5 letter attribute prefixes (as guidelines) for git commit messages:

  • Fixed
  • Minus
  • Draft
  • Added
  • Quick
  • Start
  • Quirk
  • Agile
  • Tests
  • Stand
  • Fresh
  • Speak (documentation)
  • Write (copy)
  • Blank (empty file)
  • Boils (boiler plating)
  • Clean (code redevelopment)
  • Shack (inelegant development)
  • Error (the pizza burned)
  • Jazzy (elegant development)
  • Fancy (front-end redevelopment)
  • Zippy (speed redevelopment)
  • Jinks (direction redevelopment)
  • Tacky (error redevelopment)
  • Pupil (extending development)
  • Child (child development)
  • Tasks (tasks specific development)
  • Simpl (simplified development)
  • Vodka (do not recall development)
  • Trash (scrap project)

• Number Specific

  • First
  • Twice
  • Third
  • Forth
  • Fifth
  • Sixth
  • Seven
  • Eight
  • Ninth
  • Tenth

• Debug Specific

  • Cliff (fell off a cliff)
  • Crack (development cracks)
  • Climb (slow development)
  • Crumb (tiny error fix)
  • Camps (gonna be a long night)

• Non 5 letter attributes (more importance)

  • Install (denotes major installation)
  • Update (denotes major updates to file)
  • Refactor (denotes refactoring)
  • Sprint (denotes sprints within Agile)
  • Approved (denotes approved Agile Sprints)
  • README.md (README.md updates)

• Wordpress specific

  • Wordpress (clean install)
  • Plugin (install or work on plugin)