On 24/03/2014 01:26, Terry Reedy wrote:
On 3/23/2014 6:56 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 1:58 AM, Albert-Jan Roskam <fo...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
One more thing (so this is not entirely a double post!). While
reading these books I found that the authors were pretty religious
about Clean Commits. I mean, ok, it's not a good idea to do one huge
monolithic commit each month, but I felt they were exaggerating. But
maybe I'm wrong and clean commits become more important when the
number of collaborators get bigger. It's just so easy to fix
something, and e.g. correct that typo in a docstring while you're at it.
It's important even with a single editor. When you go back and look at
a commit, you should be able to read the summary and know immediately
whether a particular line in it should have been edited or not.
Combining changes into a single commit makes that harder.
Commits are cheap. Do more of 'em rather than less.
With multiple branches (as with 2.7, 3.4, and default for cpython) and
multiple active developers (20?) commiting to those brances, commits are
definitely not free. I would not exactly call them as cheap as you seem
to imply either. That said, I have occasionally pushed interim changes
that put code in an improved and stable state.
And consider that this has been simplified, at one point four branches
plus default were being supported at the same time.
N. Coughlan has suggested improving the cpython infrastructure and
procedures to reduce the cost of commits to encourage more people to
make more commits (in the sense of more lines changed, not more pieces)
and improve cpython faster.
Excellent. The most frustrating part of CPython development from my
viewpoint is the massive number of open issues on the bug tracker that
have patches, but simply sit there for years doing nothing except gather
dust. Anything that can be done to improve this situation is IMHO long
overdue and extremely welcome.
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