Who needs a commit message, anyway? (github.com)

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I was looking through various RCON tools and found this. Someone does not like commit messages.

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[-] Maalus@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Yeah for sure don't shame them. But also, don't merge code that is bad. Opensource needs standards too because at the end of the day it's competing with closed source. Even if it's a first contribution, you probably shouldn't merge things without tests, without commit messages, etc

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