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  • Because a commit should be an “indivisible” unit, in the sense that “should this be a separate commit?” equates to “would I ever want to revert just these changes?”.

    IDK about your commit histories, but if I’d leave everything in there, there’d be a ton of fixup commits just fixing spelling, satisfying the linter,…

    Also, changes requested by reviewers: those fixups almost always belong to the same commit, it makes no sense for them to be separate.

    And finally, I guess you do technically give up some granularity, but you gain an immense amount of readability of your commit history.



  • Same. And even if you were to fuck up, have people never heard of the reflog…?

    Every job I’ve worked at it’s been the expectation to regularly rebase your feature branch on main, to squash your commits (and then force push, obv), and for most projects to do rebase-merges of PRs rather than creating merge commits. Even the, uh, less gifted developers never had an issue with this.

    I think people just hear the meme about git being hard somewhere and then use that as an excuse to never learn.


  • Grew up on it. My dad set up a Ubuntu 4.10 PC for my brother and I when we were 3/5 (no internet, obv), and it stuck.

    Used Windows for a brief time in highschool to be able to play online with friends.

    Went right back to Linux when going to university. Will never change back, both for ideological reasons and because Linux is just better.

    Next step: NixOS on a phone








  • Some might say interconnecting everything could be a legitimate goal. Nonetheless, some people started to report about huge amounts of data and metadata being sent to Matrix central servers.

    Curious that this claim is without source in the original.

    I also have porblems with their claims about bridges. Bridges are Band-Aids to allow you to communicate with people not on Matrix, not a dark masterplan to build a central spionage hub.

    By default, a homeserver trusts matrix.org in questions of federation and identity of other servers. You have to get that trust from somewhere. You are free to choose another source for that.

    (For example, my homeserver isn’t federated at all, and has that trusted server removed; it doesn’t communicate with anyone. Also it’s not synapse, but that’s besides the point.)