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Re:I Accidentally Deleted 7TB of Videos Before Going to Prod... by aqme28 on Thursday May 05, 2022 @07:19AM (#31271936)
Rather than commenting it out, I suggest adding a --live-run flag to scripts and checking the output of --live-run=false (or omitted) before you run it "live."
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Re:I Accidentally Deleted 7TB of Videos Before Going to Prod... by sdevonoes on Thursday May 05, 2022 @07:26AM (#31271992)
But then you have double the chances of introducing a bug for the specific scenario we are talking about:

Before: there is chance there is a bug in my "delete" use case

Now: what we have before plus the change that there is a bug in my "--live-run" flag

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Re:I Accidentally Deleted 7TB of Videos Before Going to Prod... by aqme28 on Thursday May 05, 2022 @01:33PM (#31276253)
You can make automated tests for your flag. You can’t make automated tests for your code comments.
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