Ever spend significant time spelunking in the Linux kernel commit history [0]? They have a guide [1] on submitting good patches, and lots of care is taken to co

Ever spend significant time spelunking in the Linux kernel commit history [0]? They have a guide [1] on submitting good patches, and lots of care is taken to commit message quality. The commits are quite helpful, not just for diagnosing errors but explaining philosophy and reasoning behind code changes [2]. I'm tremendously thankful for the amount of effort those developers put into this, because it helps newcomers come up to speed and follow development. In that kind of codebase, it would be virtually unapproachable otherwise. [0]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/ https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin... [1]: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.10/process/submitting-patches.html https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.10/process/submitting-pat... [2]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4ca9b3859dac14bbef0c27d00667bb5b10917adb https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...