On 09/09/2018 5:43 PM, Paul Backus wrote:
On Sunday, 9 September 2018 at 04:37:48 UTC, Josphe Brigmo wrote:
If git would automatically do the dates then one could download the
source code. Git would be the central repository and if one wanted an
offline version that had enough info in it such as the data a change
was made, who changed it, the date the file was generated etc, then it
would be better than having nothing.
[...]
The thing is, none of this shit hurts anything. Comments don't change
programs so really it is just an issue about bloat and rot. The rot is
covered by git hub automatically generating all the info(then it
becomes no different than the problem of versioning with everything,
want an update, just download it from git). The bloat is minimum and
the bloat is precisely valid information(it's not like it is gibberish).
I think perhaps you are laboring under a severe misunderstanding of what
git is, and how git and Github actually work.
Git is a version control system. It records historical snapshots
("commits") of a project, along with metadata like date and author, and
lets you navigate between different versions. The collection of data and
metadata saved by git for a particular project is called a "git
repository".
Github is a website for hosting git repositories. When you download the
dmd source code from Github using `git clone`, you receive a complete
copy of the entire history of dmd, including both the commits themselves
and the metadata associated with them.
That's why there's no need to add comments--all the data you want is
already there, not just on Github, but in *every single* offline copy.
When we say "just use git," we don't mean "use Github, the website," we
mean "use git, the version control system, to view the historical
information *in your local copy*".
Or Mercurial, SVN, CVS... we are not using mainframes anymore. We can
afford the cost of a full blown database with all this extra information
in it as well as all the past changes. Anyways, we're no longer talking
hundreds of lines of code. We talk in millions of lines of code where
comments just don't scale to.
