Save and recover projects with Git and GitHub

Later, you may need to find the exact version where a booking bug was fixed. Every commit carries a short message, and that is what you search. For a finished change, the message should state the result that version contains. “Reject impossible booking dates” leads you to the repair; “updates” could describe almost anything. A commit can also record unfinished work, so its message should say so honestly. The message helps you find a likely version; checking its behavior tells you whether it works.