• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          7·
          6 months ago

          Real talk: I have worked at a company where an exec briefly had the bright idea to rank developers on number of commits made.

          You can imagine how that turned out.

          He wasn’t an exec for very long.

          • QuazarOmega@lemy.lolEnglish
            3·
            6 months ago

            lmaoo, I can’t believe someone actually did that and was serious about it.
            I’m already imagining commits piling up with comments like:

            • “add a newline”
            • “move function up”
            • “rename variable users to user_list”
            • “Revert previous commit”
            • “no John, it’s user_list and that’s it, don’t you dare change it again”

            He wasn’t an exec for very long.

            Good riddance I guess

                • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                  2·
                  6 months ago

                  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.

                  • QuazarOmega@lemy.lolEnglish
                    1·
                    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

      • Schal330@lemmy.world
        3·
        6 months ago

        I have no preference! It was to do with Spring/yaml config and some really strange conflict which required the use of single quotes. I’m still a total noob in the world of software dev, so I wouldn’t be able to explain why it worked 🤣