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why type lot letter when few do trick (lemmy.zip)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

On the plus side, forcing people to support alternative branch names surely has led to better software support for a core Git feature.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

That's like forcing people to have different color shoe laces and calling it good practice. In reality it changed nothing but forced a lot of people to work on solving issues with their scripts and automation tools for the sake of change instead of spending that time on writing actual code and fixing bugs.