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Totally. Looking at the diff and asking "But why did I make this change? And how would I justify it?" is very helpful.
by AndrewDucker 4y ago
Totally. Looking at the diff and asking "But why did I make this change? And how would I justify it?" is very helpful.
- XorNot 4y agoExcept this is the problem with looking at patches in Github, as opposed to as source code. Github shows you such an utterly minimal view of the overall flow of the code that it's impossible in a lot of cases to tell what the intent was or why - you don't even have function-level context for it. Compare to if you simply checked out main and the PR, and ran a meld across both directories - changes would be highlighted, but now you have to read the code in context.