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submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Review is done before code gets into main, but that’s inefficient for most of the non-mission critical projects out there. A better approach is to optimistically merge most changes as soon as not-rocket-science allows it, and then later review the code in situ, in the main branch.

Assuming you have a project with continuous delivery, that is an absolute foot gun. Optimistically merge the change and then realize in situ that you forgot the WHERE part of your SQL command (or analog statement of the query builder)? No fucking thanks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

A better approach is to optimistically merge most changes as soon as not-rocket-science allows it, and then later review the code in situ, in the main branch.

I upvoted before reviewing the article in situ, then I had to go back and fix my upvote.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

A title as uninformative as the single . commit messages he suggests writing.

Bare minimums of typo, refactor, whitespace, comments are barely any effort -- less than the thought it takes to name variables and functions.

I really can't agree with completely meaningless messages like minor and .

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Git is a lot of things at once:

A tool to record development history - warts and all
A tool to create a logical sequence of changes
A tool to communicate intent and ideas to a maintainer

Meaningless messages like minor and . don't suit any of these roles - not even 1. Even when recording development history with all mistakes, you'd still need context when you look back at the history. Matklad is a well respected developer. I wonder why he's make such a bizarre claim.