Re:Althttpd: Simple webserver in a single C file
by gregmac on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @11:29AM
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Neither does squashing though: you still can't tell if that line was introduced or modified.
I've come across "fix indentation" or "fix typo" commits where a bug was introduced, like someone accidentally comitted a change (maybe they were debugging something, or just accidentally modified it).
For example: I'm tracing a bug where a value isn't staying cached. I find a line of code DefaultCacheAge=10 (which looks way too short) and git blame shows the last change was modifying that value from 86400. What I do next will be very different if the commit message says "fix indentation" vs "added new foobar feature" or "reduced default cache time for (reason)".
I've come across "fix indentation" or "fix typo" commits where a bug was introduced, like someone accidentally comitted a change (maybe they were debugging something, or just accidentally modified it).
For example: I'm tracing a bug where a value isn't staying cached. I find a line of code DefaultCacheAge=10 (which looks way too short) and git blame shows the last change was modifying that value from 86400. What I do next will be very different if the commit message says "fix indentation" vs "added new foobar feature" or "reduced default cache time for (reason)".