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Because Git's own developers know to use git-blame, git-show, and write good commit messages. Comments are not the only place to store meta-info about why code

Because Git's own developers know to use git-blame, git-show, and write good commit messages. Comments are not the only place to store meta-info about why code is the way it is.

MrStonedOne 7y ago
Git is open source, it doesn't have its own developers, every developer is "gits own developers". They really should make this more explicit.
- philwelch 7y ago
  Of course Git has its own developers, just as the Linux kernel does. There's no moral, technical, legal, or organizational obligation for the maintainers of any open source project to accept or solicit changes from randos.
- wincent 7y ago
  They probably don't want the source code to start resembling a Literate Programming example.
  - MrStonedOne 7y ago
    I don't think gatekeeping contributors and gatekeeping contributions are the same thing.