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Working from a checkout without losing the plot
Repo-based work can be powerful, but it creates its own failure modes: dirty state, ambiguous deploy truth, and edits that never get committed or verified.
Checkout ruleTrack what changed, verify what is live, and commit finished batches before starting the next repair cluster.
Repo discipline
What keeps checkout work sane
- Know the real workspace state. Check git status before claiming clean or deployed state.
- Batch related edits. Group coherent fixes into one verifiable unit.
- Deploy and verify. A local edit is not a finished result.
- Commit the batch. Leave a traceable checkpoint before moving on.
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