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There’s nothing like a tidy codebase (altdevblogaday.com)
20 points by rubikscube on July 24, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Please don't do this. The poor bastard who's trying to understand your commit to fix bug #2325634 now has to wade through a load of unrelated crap to find the tiny change that's relevant.

Oh, you've done the clean-up in another commit? But still on the feature branch? Yeah, not helping because now there's two commits to look at instead of one and WHY DO YOU HATE ME?

Do this as part of a clean-up exercise with its own branch. Don't do it as part of generic bug fixing. Your team members will thank you.




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