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Commit history has saved my ass more times than I can count. Especially useful on a codebase that has churned through a lot of developers that you've never met.
by potta_coffee 7y ago
Commit history has saved my ass more times than I can count. Especially useful on a codebase that has churned through a lot of developers that you've never met.
- hinkley 7y agoYeah, including other people's bugs. Worked a few places where people would just give up on bugs well before I did, and less than half of that was perseverance. The first time I recall doing this was when a QA person came to me to complain that in the last handful of releases we had done, were cycling back and forth between 2 bugs and they had just caught the same thing starting again in a pre-release build. After that it just kinda went into the toolbox to look at why code got a certain way instead of assuming the dev wasn't paying attention (or was in fact dim). If you know what someone is trying to do, you can find a solution that solves both problems (without necessarily using either solution).