How often should you refactor?

Question

I had a discussion a few weeks back with some co-workers on refactoring, and I seem to be in a minority that believes \"Refactor early, refactor often\" is a good approach t

Answer 1

I localize refactoring to code related to my current task. I try to do my refactoring up front. I commit these changes separately since from a functional standpoint, it is unrelated to the actual task. This way the code is cleaner to work with and the revision history is also cleaner.