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authorAdam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org>2018-10-21 18:04:17 +0100
committerAdam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org>2018-10-21 18:07:13 +0100
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minor tweaks to improve README
Thanks to Ben North for some useful feedback.
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@@ -80,11 +80,10 @@ submission.
Another use case might be to better understand levels of specialism /
cross-functionality within an agile team. If I author a commit which
modifies (say) lines 34-37 and 102-109 of a file, the authors of the
-dependent commits forms a list which indicates the group of people I
-should potentially consider asking to review my commit, since I'm
-effectively changing "their" code. Monitoring those relationships
-over time might shed some light on how agile teams should best
-coordinate efforts on shared code bases.
+dependent commits are people I should potentially consider asking to
+review my commit, since I'm effectively changing "their" code.
+Monitoring those relationships over time might shed some light on how
+agile teams should best coordinate efforts on shared code bases.
### Caveat
@@ -92,8 +91,11 @@ Note the dependency graph is likely to be semantically incomplete; for
example it would not auto-detect dependencies between a commit A which
changes code and another commit B which changes documentation or tests
to reflect the code changes in commit A. (Although of course it's
-usually best practice to logically group such changes together in a
-single commit.) But this should not stop it from being useful.
+usually best practice to either logically group such changes together
+in a single commit, or use an alternate meta-history grouping
+mechanism such as
+[`git-dendrify`](https://github.com/bennorth/git-dendrify).) But
+this should not stop it from being useful.
### Use case 4: automatic squashing of fixup commits