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.
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.