Linus Torvalds: 'I Do No Coding Any More'

Re:Linus Torvalds: 'I Do No Coding Any More' by djKianoosh on Sunday July 05, 2020 @04:57PM (#23741913)

I think the inexperienced developer simply hasn't had to personally dig through old commits/history to solve enough problems.

There's likely a threshold (a 10000 hours type thing) where you've researched enough code history to value great commit messages and descriptions and docs/readmes, issue descriptions and comments etc.

But how do we impart the importance of this to the other devs around us that will make it stick? Past "war" stories?

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Re:Linus Torvalds: 'I Do No Coding Any More' by cutemonster on Monday July 06, 2020 @10:17AM (#23748102)

Maybe let them maintain a 20 years old project with unusual behavior and requirements, and nice helpful 20 years old commit messages?

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