Jonas Lundberg:

We all do it. Up to many times a day and yet it’s rare that I meet someone that has given it a second thought. No, it’s not secretly snacking chocolate from your top office drawer.

It’s how you write and structure your commits. Possibly while snacking chocolate.

What follows is a piece marrying atomic commits (as in small commits with one focus) with Donald Knuth’s literate programming. It ends with some research on whether or not this practice commonplace on the 100 most popular GitHub repos.