Standalone Commits A standalone commit is a commit a reviewer can audit on its own, at that point in branch history. It may depend on earlier commits in the same branch, but it should not require future commits to explain, compile, test, or justify it. Related Skills : See for ordering multi-commit work into waves. See for conventional commit messages. Relationship To Incremental Commits is the philosophy and acceptance test. It answers: "Is this commit worth reviewing by itself?" is the sequencing workflow. It answers: "What order should the standalone commits happen in?" Use them together:…