Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 20.11.2019, 15:31 -0500 schrieb Tim Boudreau: > On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 2:36 PM Benjamin Asbach <netbe...@impl.it> wrote: > > > So why > > having these information in project history when it does not deliver any > > additional value? > > > > Because the point of developing software is to develop software, not please > hypothetical future historians. >
this is shortsighted. I had the misfortune to have to sift through layers of changes. And I was happy, that the authors were resonably disciplined. The commits were mostly sane and the commit message carried value. While git diff is nice, a few months after a change, you can't reconstruct which commits belonged together. Yes I think it is valuable to produce a clean history. Not because I'm egocentric, but because I expect others to read my code, just as I read theirs and what applies to comments also applies to commit messages and history: You most probably write them also for yourself, so that you know why you did something a year or ten ago. For a project, that ask for code review I find an unclean history totally unhelpful - cleaning up your work also helps reflecting it and making it easier for others to understand. So if you think this is egocentric or something, I don't care to much, I clean up my work, I appretiate author creating a clean PR and I also do the work to cleanup others. Greetings Matthias --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.apache.org For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
