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> 2. Margin of commit messages is often too small for documenting the rationale - this job is better left for tickets. The commit message lives with the code.
by factotvm 2y ago
> 2. Margin of commit messages is often too small for documenting the rationale - this job is better left for tickets.
The commit message lives with the code. The number of times in my career that a company has migrated, changed, consolidated, or otherwise made all those links in commit messages obsolete, well I don't quite yet need two hands. But I see a lot of dead ends to context in code bases.
- cdcarter 2y agoNothing stopping someone from deciding to migrate VCSs (or even just repos) and all of a sudden end up in the place that 15 years of codebase history is squashed down to a single new starting commit. :(
- factotvm 2y agoDon’t forget that most modern version control systems are distributed. The same can not be said for ticketing systems.