Banned C standard library functions in Git source code

Re:Banned C standard library functions in Git source code by wincent on Sunday August 25, 2019 @12:02PM (#20793660)

Because Git's own developers know to use git-blame, git-show, and write good commit messages. Comments are not the only place to store meta-info about why code is the way it is.

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Re:Banned C standard library functions in Git source code by MrStonedOne on Sunday August 25, 2019 @04:47PM (#20795463)

Git is open source, it doesn't have its own developers, every developer is "gits own developers". They really should make this more explicit.

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Re:Banned C standard library functions in Git source code by philwelch on Sunday August 25, 2019 @06:06PM (#20795909)

Of course Git has its own developers, just as the Linux kernel does. There's no moral, technical, legal, or organizational obligation for the maintainers of any open source project to accept or solicit changes from randos.

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Re:Banned C standard library functions in Git source code by wincent on Sunday August 25, 2019 @06:38PM (#20796079)

They probably don't want the source code to start resembling a Literate Programming example.

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Re:Banned C standard library functions in Git source code by MrStonedOne on Monday August 26, 2019 @02:30AM (#20797867)

I don't think gatekeeping contributors and gatekeeping contributions are the same thing.

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