Google’s robots.txt parser is now open source

Re:Google’s robots.txt parser is now open source by simonw on Monday July 01, 2019 @01:19PM (#20327571)

I absolutely understand why they did this, but I have to say I was disappointed to see only 7 commits at https://github.com/google/robotstxt/commits/master dating back to June 25th.

When I read "This library has been around for 20 years and it contains pieces of code that were written in the 90's" my first thought was "that commit history must be FASCINATING".

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Re:Google’s robots.txt parser is now open source by lucasmullens on Monday July 01, 2019 @03:38PM (#20328949)

I think it's pretty rare for a company to make internal commits public once making something open source.

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Re:Google’s robots.txt parser is now open source by deeteecee on Monday July 01, 2019 @07:35PM (#20330781)

yeah, otherwise you might see commit messages like "wtf is this shit" :)

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Re:Google’s robots.txt parser is now open source by circular_logic on Monday July 01, 2019 @03:40PM (#20328969)

The first commit has the extra comment `PiperOrigin-RevId: 254932939`

This may[0] be because it is exported from there monorepo

-[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14811937

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