Linus Torvalds: 'I Do No Coding Any More'

Re:Linus Torvalds: 'I Do No Coding Any More' by mister_hn on Sunday July 05, 2020 @02:41PM (#23740871)

I've worked with 20yrs+ senior Devs whose commit message is always something like 1 or 2 words sentence (think of "cleanup", "feature X done") and some of there work manually with diff-tools between their local copy of code and the for repository they check out on a different folder. If they're not satisfied with the incoming changes, they just overwrite them and push the overwrite back to repository.

This has happened with SVN and also is happening with Git.

Unfortunately you can't argue with those ones since are in lead position and there's no one with technical skills above them in the C-level who can say anything (we don't have a CTO or a CIO, just CFO and CEO who can't even use their own iPad)

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Re:Linus Torvalds: 'I Do No Coding Any More' by cutemonster on Monday July 06, 2020 @05:40AM (#23746151)

> they just overwrite them and push the overwrite back to repository.

I'm not sure I understand what they're doing -- they overwrite some of the changes in their local working tree, and push to the repo, without explaining what they did/what they changed or why?

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Re:Linus Torvalds: 'I Do No Coding Any More' by mister_hn on Monday July 06, 2020 @07:31AM (#23746774)

Exactly. They keep a folder which isn't git-sync'ed (they fear the overwrites), then git pull on another folder and with graphic diff tools (e.g. Meld), they compare the changes. If they don't like the changes, they simply recopy the files from the non-sync'ed folder to the git folder and push it (a cherry pick would be too hard for them)

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Re:Linus Torvalds: 'I Do No Coding Any More' by cutemonster on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @05:09AM (#23768211)

Sounds like annoying to get no feedback about one's changes

Thanks for explaining

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Re:Linus Torvalds: 'I Do No Coding Any More' by mamon on Sunday July 05, 2020 @04:16PM (#23741557)

In theory, this could still work if one of those two words put in by lazy developers was a JIRA ticket number where all the details are described in length. Atlassian stack (JIRA, Bitbucket, etc.) even allows you to make those clickable links.

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Re:Linus Torvalds: 'I Do No Coding Any More' by mister_hn on Monday July 06, 2020 @02:35AM (#23745269)

Sure, but when your Jira tickets are also poorly described, you have zero ways to track what has been done

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