Python gets a "Developer-in-Residence"

Posted Jul 31, 2021 7:42 UTC (Sat) by LtWorf (subscriber, #124958)
In reply to: Python gets a "Developer-in-Residence" by hynek
Parent article: Python gets a "Developer-in-Residence"

> It has been _months_ since it happened

It should just not happen, because commits that change hundreds of files at once, with "style" as description make going back in history incredibly hard.

Python gets a "Developer-in-Residence"

Posted Jul 31, 2021 15:21 UTC (Sat) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link] (1 responses)

You have a python project with hundreds of files? That was bitten by this issue where every file was totally changed by a new version of black? Is it then that hard to report a bug, saying, file example x formatted by black version y, then reformatted by black version z, has an enormous diff?

Python gets a "Developer-in-Residence"

Posted Jul 31, 2021 17:51 UTC (Sat) by LtWorf (subscriber, #124958) [Link]

Since I only use stable distributions, how is that going to help? The authors can't change the past, and any "fix" will only generate more diff.

My issue is more on the general approach of the project, that seems to be ok with periodically having to reformat stuff.