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> Is this a terrible coding practice? I don't have enough non-me experience to know what an anti-pattern this probably is. I probably won't change my process, but I'm curious.

For solo development? I don't think it's good, but ultimately you should do whatever works for you. When you work on a team, though, it might be hard to break the habit later if this is what you're used to, and you really really will need to. Nobody wants to see "snapshot" commits in a shared repo; commits will need to actually accomplish a clear goal. Also, I find it very helpful to be able to make independent changes in separate commits (sometimes I see something wrong that's unrelated to whatever I'm doing), then reorder (rebase) them to polish them sometime before pushing. If you don't get in the habit of making your commits somewhat orthogonal, you won't be able to do these kinds of things (whether on teams or solo).