> if you really believed this you would not be using version control.
> P.S. I am assume you do, since you mention commits.
That's circular logic, at best. This is about the label given to "perfect" commit(s), for which someone has made an arbitrary qualitative list of attributes. The GP has a different qualitative list.
> The argument of shipping being the only thing that matters can be used to justify editing files in production without version control.
> It seems, then, that using version control would be unnecessary under that logic.
> if shipping is the only thing that matters then why use version control
We're talking about commits here, so there's a given that version control is used. I'm not sure why you are trying to turn it into a debate about the utility of using version control. You're defending what is obviously an overreactive post you made because you chose to interpret the post in bad faith. His values are more product focused than practice focused and there's nothing more.
That's circular logic, at best. This is about the label given to "perfect" commit(s), for which someone has made an arbitrary qualitative list of attributes. The GP has a different qualitative list.