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Reviews git practices — commit message quality, branch naming, merge strategy, and secret prevention. Poor git hygiene creates archaeology problems: future developers cannot understand why changes were made, and leaked secrets require expensive credential rotation.
A review skill for git history quality and repository hygiene.
Run this when establishing team git conventions, onboarding new contributors, or auditing repository history for secret leaks and compliance.
Write commit messages that explain WHY a change was made, not just WHAT changed. "fix bug" tells future-you nothing — "fix: prevent duplicate form submission on slow connections" tells you the context, the cause, and the scope without reading any code.
Each commit should contain exactly one logical change. Commits that mix refactoring, bug fixes, and features together make git bisect useless, code review painful, and reverting a single change impossible without losing everything else in the commit.
BeforeMerge scans your pull requests against all 3 Git Workflow Review rules automatically. Get actionable feedback before code ships.