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 # Coding standards
 
 Generally we just follow good sensible Rust practices, clippy and so forth.
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 These test helpers add pre-and-post logic to tests to enable the use of tracing
 inside tests, which can be helpful for tracking down behaviours in larger tests.
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+## Atomic commits
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+We use atomic commits across the repo. Each commit should represent a single unit of change.
+You can read more about atomic commits [here](https://www.aleksandrhovhannisyan.com/blog/atomic-git-commits).