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New comment by commentsaregood in "Software is made between commits"

commentsaregood — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:38:29 +0000

Likewise, what happens if someone does a npm install or slap a venv or some other thing like that, before adding the equivalent of a gitignore for these things? Did you then just flood two times 200 MB worth of changes into the tracker? What if I just simply build in golang to a subfolder early on, is that v0.0.1 stuck there until someone decides to do the second layer of githistory inspection?

Perhaps not. But I'm not going to be the guy training the Team on how not to do it. They have shaky grasp of the full set of standards for PR's as is.

New comment by commentsaregood in "Software is made between commits"

commentsaregood — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:22:37 +0000

I spent the entire article thinking

> this is what comments are for

> that is usually unnecessary, but if it were, a comment would fulfill it

> I literally solved this problem with a comment yesterday

> if the AI needs to know that, I'd explicitly ask it to put it in a skill or AGENTS.md. if a human needs it, I'd put it in a comment

> this is overengineering a purpose comments already fulfill

I dont want a second set of commit changes and a freaking schema that tracks me Ctrl+Z and Shift+Ctrl+Z'ing a bunch just to accomplish what comments already do, wtf.