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Being honest, I dislike the tone of this sort of clickbaity rephrasing of the article title. The actual title is "You must use your Global Git Ignore!" which is
by gwynforthewyn 2y ago
Being honest, I dislike the tone of this sort of clickbaity rephrasing of the article title. The actual title is "You must use your Global Git Ignore!" which is completely true; the nuanced observation from the article "Using the git ignore feature is great but it has limitations, which is why I think this file is overused and often incorrectly" is a worthwhile hook, and presented thoughtfully.
The title "Stop Using Git Ignore", which the author of the blog post chose for this submission, doesn't represent his actual article well, though it probably gets more upvotes on Hacker News. I wish he'd presented the article more accurately, as it's a worthwhile observation that, for example, we probably have so many .DS_Store files and .vscode/.idea directories that defining them once will save us some hassle.
- eddiejaoude 2y agoThank you for the detailed feedback, I really appreciate you taking the time and effort. Yes the title is a little bit controversial
- gwynforthewyn 2y agoThanks for taking the time to write the article! We need more people sharing their good ideas like this.
- eddiejaoude 2y agoThank you! I like to think of my articles and youtube videos as a starting point for discussion - even after 15+ years I am still learning
- phatskat 2y agoIt’s more than “a little bit controversial”, it _is_ clickbait. If your title was more true to the article’s actual premise, I doubt you’d have as much engagement. The title made me click immediately because “wow that’s a wild opinion!” I opened the article and was greeted with a much more nuanced view than I was led to believe and tbh I likely wouldn’t have read it if the title was more accurate.