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Re:Reducing technical debt by valuing comments as much as code by TedDoesntTalk on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @07:55PM (#34604777)
Put the comments in git commit messages! Ha, that’s a good laugh. There are so many shortcomings to this, I don’t even know where to begin.
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Re:Reducing technical debt by valuing comments as much as code by kazinator on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @09:30PM (#34605584)
Nick checks out.
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Re:Reducing technical debt by valuing comments as much as code by Izkata on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @12:28AM (#34606813)
The obsession people seem to have with squashing commits in git (particularly on merge) means they're right, you can't really rely on commit messages still containing relevant information.
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Re:Reducing technical debt by valuing comments as much as code by kazinator on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @01:32PM (#34615222)
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