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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Oh, no, we can do better.

Every single line of every single PR is an individual commit. And never squash-commit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

If you really want to nuke it from orbit: do it for every character.

It is absolutely technically feasible to go further than that, but I think that’s the point of diminishing returns in terms of effort.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Hah, I knew it would come to that

but I think that’s the point of diminishing returns in terms of effort

Not if you make another application to automatically split commits in that way... application which will need its own commits, it's never-ending