[HN Gopher] Autosaved: A Go utility for autosaving progress in G...
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Autosaved: A Go utility for autosaving progress in Git projects
Author : nikochiko
Score : 16 points
Date : 2022-01-10 05:48 UTC (2 days ago)
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| Narretz wrote:
| I swear a similar tool was discussed here a just a few days ago,
| but I can't find it.
| gouggoug wrote:
| I have nothing against this tool in particular;
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| I am however quite worried that this kind of tool will just
| enable this already terrible habit that a lot of developers have;
| which is to mindlessly commit changes and then make PRs full of
| "asdf", "typo", "fixing comma", "blaaaaa".
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| With this tool, these developers won't even have to waste time
| typing `git commit` and will happily submit PRs as a bunch of
| "autosaved" commits.
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| This further reduces git to being just a means to an end: the end
| being able to just mindlessly push code over a fence and see it
| magically deployed.
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