Re:LibreOffice still kicking at 40, now with browser tricks ...
by iforgotpassword on Friday February 14, 2025 @02:34AM
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Nah, I've often found the opposite to be true. Granted, it requires proper commit messages and code comments, but I've had my fair share of "oooh I see" moments when I encountered nonsensical crazy code. Sometimes it reassured me that it could safely go, other times it revealed a whole new dimension nobody was really aware of anymore that then got a good chunk of comment space in the code base.
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Re:LibreOffice still kicking at 40, now with browser tricks ...
by mlyle on Friday February 14, 2025 @09:58AM
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Well, it really requires:
A) great commit messages, B) comments that are worse than the commit message so that you have to go scavenge in revision control, C) a single or very few commits where the craziness happened, and D) a codebase that hasn't drifted enough that this signal is hard to find.
I've had poor luck spelunking for reasons in things like the Linux kernel. 90% of my revision control effort looks at things from the past couple of years, and before then it rapidly becomes diminishing returns.