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grebctoday at 8:05 AM1 replyview on HN

If it’s a compiled language, just change the definition and try to compile.


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gregatestoday at 8:13 AM

Indeed! You would think it would have some kind of sense that a commit that obviously won't compile is bad!

You would think.

It would be one thing if it was like, ok, we'll temporarily commit the signature change, do some related thing, then come back and fix all the call sites, and squash before merging. But that is not the proposal. The plan it proposes is literally to make what it has identified as the minimal change, which obviously breaks the build, and call it a day, presuming that either I or a future session will do the obvious next step it is trying to beg off.

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