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Ahh - the joys of monorepo.
maybe I'm missing something but wouldn't this show up in a diff before pushing?
thanks for the reply, but i think i got that. from the linked article:
but wouldn't these erroneous diffs not show up in
git diff
? it seems that they were pushing (maybe automatically?)without inspecting the diffs firstthat is such a C thing to do.
It's not as stupid as this blog post makes it sound. This was a hashing function that was intentionally taking the end of the path as the most significant part. This just impacts the order of objects in a pack file, and the size of the compression window needed to compress it.
It's not actually mistaking one file for another, and their proposed solution is not better in all situations.
yeah i'm not saying it is stupid or something, but this kind of optimisation is found in C code very often, where people take the first|last N of something because it is most likely good enough :D