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Understanding Git · shell, git, r, python, et al.

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What is best practices for new files? Should you stage and commit them immediately so you have at least the start of a version history ?

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That is what I do, but how often you make commits is a question of:

• personal preference
• decision with your team if you collaborate with other people

So there is no best practice on this (apart from never mixing unrelated changes in commits as this makes it very difficult to use the history later on).

Some people make few commits and each commit has lots of big changes, others (and I am amongst those) make many smaller commits for smaller/fewer changes.

[prosoitos]

More frequent commits require more Git work and create longer histories, but then it allows a more granular versioning.

As you start using Git you will figure out what works for you (and sometimes you don't have a choice as you work in a team which has rules about this).