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Re:It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code (2020) by max46 on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @12:08PM (#27278621)
>You're right - in fact we should do this for every line of code, so that we know of whom to ask questions!

if you want to live in this kind of absolutism, I would rather have the name on every line than no comments at all.

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Re:It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code (2020) by jen20 on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @01:32PM (#27279758)
Good news then: git blame already does this, and modern editors show it all the time (via copying Code Lens features from Visual Studio).

Install the appropriate extension for GitHub and you can have it there too, with no extra effort or maintenance burden of duplicative metadata.

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