> So, in this respect, my programming skill has reached it's limit and the most I will be able to do is refine it.
> And it is embarrassing to me because I want to do better. I am ashamed, but the one to come will have to follow up on what I could not manage with my meager human abilities.
This reminds me of the fictional inspirational process of dwarves in the Drizzt Do'Urden series of books [0] by R. A. Salvatore [1]. In that setting a dwarf craftsman gets only one moment of exceptional divine inspiration in his life to forge a legendary artifact. It is both a blessing and curse for them, because they realize that they will never be able to surpass that work for the remainder of their long lives.
I wonder if other people here have had that moment in their life as well?
That one is really in the "mad scientist" mindset. I love it, I wish him and this project good luck.
In between you find some actual code changes (with also long commit messages).
It's not that he's finished - I hardly guess so because he complains that he'd need 10 years of time to polish everything out perfectly (in his opinion) and he only has one - it's just his style for a log book...
I actually keep a separate journal and sometimes paste from it. I've been using LibreOffice Writer for it and decided to drop it recently because it would take so long to save a file - like 5s or more. Around every 3 month I'd fill in about 1000 pages of it and it was forcing me to move to a new file every time that happened. Now I just use VS Code for this sort of thing. Raw text is the best after all, but it is too bad I can't paste images into the journal anymore.
This allows you to create a new commit, even if no files have changed.
However, it is quite likely you can use Visual Studio's "External Tools" feature to be able to achieve this. (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/76712d27.aspx)
You could set up an external tool that did something like the following:
Title: Commit with Selected Text as Message
Command: path\to\git.exe
Initial Directory: $(SolutionDir)
Arguments: commit --allow-empty -m "$(CurText)"
This will allow you to create an empty commit, with the selected text becoming the commit message. (Just bear in mind if you have any files staged, they will be committed as well)
I unfortunately do not have Visual Studio currently installed, so please take the above as a rough sketch, and my apologies if it doesn't work as is. But, I hope it is of use to you.
Ah, yes, I remember wanting to be able commit the identity transformation (_i.e._ no change) at some point. I don't remember why. It might have been a matter of principle.
PS: I just learned about the `--allow-empty` flag. [0] I'm happy again.
[0] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-commit#git-commit---allow-empty
But he said he was done, because he no more time for language design, and he must study AI now.