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Re:Language complexity, measured by how many rules GitHub's ... by acidflask on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @01:45AM (#11665365)
Making people think is my favorite part of my job. :)
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Re:Language complexity, measured by how many rules GitHub's ... by pvg on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @01:59AM (#11665402)
Many of these categories are not 'languages' making it hard to make any conclusions beside 'people working with Joomla or VS seem to have some gigantic .gitignore template'.
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Re:Language complexity, measured by how many rules GitHub's ... by k__ on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @03:59AM (#11665778)
too much code generators?
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Re:Language complexity, measured by how many rules GitHub's ... by emodendroket on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @11:23AM (#11667852)
Typically you'd check in generated code; you'd exclude packages, compiled code, certain kinds of configuration and logs, etc.
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Re:Language complexity, measured by how many rules GitHub's ... by hawaiianbrah on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @01:40PM (#11669014)
Do you typically check in generated code? I think it depends on a lot of things. My understanding is the general rule of thumb is NOT to, except for certain cases (generation takes a long time, for instance)
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Re:Language complexity, measured by how many rules GitHub's ... by emodendroket on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @02:18PM (#11669316)
Well, in the VS world generated code is typically generated once and open to modification post-generation, so yes.
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