brezel@piefed.socialtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Flaw in Git bloated Microsoft repository by a factor of 35.English
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8 days agoThe algorithm checked only the last 16 characters of the path, so package differences were not considered.
that is such a C thing to do.
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