Re:Rob Pike on good commit messages (2014)
by blaze33 on Thursday December 19, 2019 @07:24PM
(#21840709)
> and NOWHERE IN THE SOURCE CODE IS THIS FACT DOCUMENTED.
Nowadays that I use VS code with GitLens, each line of code automatically shows me its latest commit message, just hover that info and I have the date, author and a link to the changes which usually give some useful context to understand why and how some particular line was edited. Very useful!
Too many times have I seen well documented code only to later realize that the code was edited with no updates to the comments, now useless and a source of time waste...
Nowadays that I use VS code with GitLens, each line of code automatically shows me its latest commit message, just hover that info and I have the date, author and a link to the changes which usually give some useful context to understand why and how some particular line was edited. Very useful!
Too many times have I seen well documented code only to later realize that the code was edited with no updates to the comments, now useless and a source of time waste...