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The art of writing meaningful Git commit messages

Writing a Git commit message is harder than it looks. This post dives into the art and nuance behind writing meaningful commits messages and explores how Conventional Commits can be as helpful for humans as they are for machines.
Valerie Burzynski
May 22, 2025
- Commits
- Git
- Programming
This week in #dev (Aug 18, 2023)

Caching HTTP responses forever, a fix for when your terminal is acting weird, and more!
thoughtbot
August 28, 2023
- This Week In Dev
- Git
- Rails
- HTTP
- Terminal
- Communication
This week in #dev (Aug 4, 2023)

A guide on web security, DeMorgan Laws, force-pushing without losing your work, and more!
thoughtbot
August 16, 2023
- This Week In Dev
- Rails
- Ruby
- Git
- TIL
- Tip
- Security
- Performance
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This week in #dev (Jul 28, 2023)

Creating reusable components with vanilla JS, checking feature compatibility across email clients, and more!
thoughtbot
August 7, 2023
- This Week In Dev
- JavaScript
- Tip
- Email
- Stimulus
- Git
This week in #dev (Jul 7, 2023)

Highlights of what happened in thoughtbot’s #dev channel on Slack this week.
thoughtbot
July 19, 2023
- This Week In Dev
- Rails
- Ruby
- Git
- Testing
GitHub pull request merge strategies

An overview of what the options provided by the pull request merge button on GitHub do and how to make the best out of each strategy.
Dimiter Petrov
July 17, 2023
- Git
- Tools
This week in #dev (Apr 28, 2023)

The Today I Learned edition.
thoughtbot
May 9, 2023
- This Week In Dev
- TIL
- Ruby
- Rails
- Git
CI/CD: Automating Tests and Deployments the Fun Way

Running tests and managing deployments can be a tediously manual process or overwhelming to automate with all the available platforms and tools to choose from. We at thoughtbot want to share how our process has made CI/CD simple and enjoyable.
Victoria Guido and Christopher Kuttruff
January 30, 2023
- Kubernetes
- Testing
- Automation
- Git
- Deployment
- CI
- CI/CD
- AWS
- Docker
- Process
Automate manual deployments with Git and binstubs

Your team’s manual deployment process doesn’t have to be so manual. Here’s how we automated our team’s deployment process with a few lines of bash and basic Git knowledge.
Steve Polito
November 14, 2022
- Git
- Web
- Shell
- Automation
Migrating thoughtbot Repositories to use Main as default branch

thoughtbot is moving all of it’s GitHub Repositories to use “main” as the default branch.
Brian Tenggren
September 16, 2021
- News
- Git
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