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@ Thorsten Leemhuis (acct. 1/4)
2025-02-25 06:12:59
'"[…] contain commit messages full of design rationale. We didn't want that information to get lost, so we saved it in a historical branch upstream. Wayland-protocols main branch got just a single commit with everything squashed, as is the project practice. […]"'[1]
Wondering how hard it will be for newcomers to find that design rationale in the historical branch in 1, 5, 10, 25 or 50 years – and if not squashing would have been wiser. 🤷
[1] quoted from https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/12-years-of-incubating-wayland-color-management.html #git #wayland
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