NimSkull: A Hard Fork of Nim

Re:NimSkull: A Hard Fork of Nim by otherme123 on Friday July 08, 2022 @04:36AM (#32024427)

Araq can be harsh sometimes, but what I'm reading in the linked github thread is a developer who at first doesn't see value in the PR (4th of december) but accepted the PR two days latter after being shown evidence that he was wrong. He didn't entrench, closed the PR without further discussion or requested an unreal ammount of proofs, which I have faced in a number of other projects. He just said: "so I'll try to follow this new guideline" and accepted the PR.

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Re:NimSkull: A Hard Fork of Nim by haxscramper on Friday July 08, 2022 @05:24AM (#32024755)

That does not magically rewrite all previous commit messages, although apparently the improvement is present https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/commits?author=Araq - most of the total ~25 comments made in the last seven months since December 9, 2021 have more or less legible titles.

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Re:NimSkull: A Hard Fork of Nim by asojfdowgh on Friday July 08, 2022 @07:26AM (#32025693)

So nimskull is planning on rewriting all previous commit messages to be more legible? Or is that unreasonable?

Assuming unreasonable, isn't it unreasonable to expect someone to completely break git history for everyone, and or invent time travel?

Seems to be an absurd amount of condemnation over a mistake that did far less than hurting no-one

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Re:NimSkull: A Hard Fork of Nim by bragr on Friday July 08, 2022 @04:58PM (#32026984)

That's not what he's saying at all. He's saying that the maintainer now has better commit messages, but there is still a need to go back and produce documentation for undocumented code with inscrutable commit messages. e.g. doing better now does not undo prior damage

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Re:NimSkull: A Hard Fork of Nim by asojfdowgh on Saturday July 09, 2022 @01:53AM (#32032219)

ok, how?

ok, why can that method that you choose not be applied to nim?

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Re:NimSkull: A Hard Fork of Nim by haxscramper on Saturday July 09, 2022 @03:35AM (#32032783)

On how: The "method" is to just respect the future contributors from the start, instead of waiting for ten years until someone tells you to write better messages.

Why can't it be applied: no idea, writing sensible commit messages seems like a basic necessity if your goal is sustainable project development, but that's just me

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Re:NimSkull: A Hard Fork of Nim by asojfdowgh on Saturday July 09, 2022 @05:53AM (#32033473)

ah, the time machine method then

Well good luck hard-forking backwards into the past to re-write commit messages.

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