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by eddiejaoude 2y ago
Thank 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
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by eddiejaoude 2y ago
yes as an open source maintainer, this is a difficult decision I need to make for each project. On one hand, I want to do the right thing, but on the other, the initial convenience does come into play - but this can come back to bite us lat
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by eddiejaoude 2y ago
I am suggesting we separate project specific and developer specific git ignores - I don't think you read the article
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by eddiejaoude 2y ago
not sure what you mean by this, can you explain more?
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by eddiejaoude 2y ago
Thank you for the detailed feedback, I really appreciate you taking the time and effort. Yes the title is a little bit controversial
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by eddiejaoude 2y ago
oh wow, really! why? sounds like a horrible project, imagine those git conflicts can you elaborate on why they would want to commit IDE generated files? I have only seen this in legacy projects what happens if people want to use different I
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by eddiejaoude 2y ago
yes exactly! then we end up with every IDE, operating system and dev tools (which is a lot)
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by eddiejaoude 2y ago
We need to open source the world! Especially as the world is built on open source
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by eddiejaoude 2y ago
yes we still need the repo git ignore for specific items for the repo it was more about stop using the repo git ignore for everything, rather than not use it at all
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Stop Using Git Ignore(eddiejaoude.substack.com)
14 points by eddiejaoude 2y ago|69 comments
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by eddiejaoude 2y ago
Thanks for replying. Can you share any more info or resources on your experience?
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The most important file in your open source repo(eddiejaoude.substack.com)
2 points by eddiejaoude 2y ago|0 comments
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by eddiejaoude 2y ago
I agree that the number of stars has no link to income generated by a SaaS platform and many consider this a vanity metric. However, my understanding is that investors do consider this metric closely before making their decision.
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by eddiejaoude 2y ago
It would have been better to comment on the original blog post so I could get notified rather than someone else telling me about this comment - we can all learn from different points of view. As you will see from the blog post, the project
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by eddiejaoude 8y ago
Great post! Thanks. Contractors FTW :)