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> My hope is that people like to see their name when they "git blame" Sadly, my impression is that a lot of people don't want to see their own names on git bla
by yongjik 6y ago
> My hope is that people like to see their name when they "git blame"
Sadly, my impression is that a lot of people don't want to see their own names on git blame, because they fundamentally operate on "you break it, you buy it" mode. As long as their name isn't associated with a particular piece of code, it's not their fault that it's broken. (It doesn't matter that the code is fundamentally broken and has been broken since inception five years ago - not my fault!) Here, let me just add a quick wrapper layer on top of it so that my module can work around the bug, while at the same time making my module depend on the broken behavior...
- alain_gilbert 6y agoI see two different scenarios for this: Open source: in open source, I hope people want their contributions to be visible, so that they can brag about it, or put it in their resume. Business: in business, maybe some people wants to hide some contributions they made in order to avoid being blamed for broken code. But at the same time, if you have code stats and you see that an engineer owns less than x% of the codebase, it could be seen as a bad sign.