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> On 05/08/2025 06:36, Konstantin Khomoutov wrote:
>> FMorschel, when reading, consider paying close attention to the two things:
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>> - What Linus says about much of the code coming in in the form of the
>> textual patches mailed to the various mailing lists.
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>
> I see that now, thanks for the link and for pointing it out.
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>> - An example describing a commit which has unified 5 different code snippets
>> into one.
>>
>> Basically, these bits highlight the fact that files, albeit useful and
>> ubiquitous on today's commodity operating systems, frame our way of thinking
>> of how information is tracked a bit too much ;-)
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> I never had thought of that.
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> My only push-back against this decision would be to allow the
> developer (that actually _understands_ the changes) the ability to
> make the decision of tracking that.
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> But since the decision (of what is related to what) is that this
> should mainly be handled by the threshold (so git can figure it out
> for you) it's fine then.
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> Thank you all for taking the time to answer me!
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