Sunshine (she/her)@piefed.ca to Fediverse memes@feddit.ukEnglish · 5 months agoI Cant Count The TImes I Did Thisimagemessage-square32linkfedilinkarrow-up1186arrow-down14
arrow-up1182arrow-down1imageI Cant Count The TImes I Did ThisSunshine (she/her)@piefed.ca to Fediverse memes@feddit.ukEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square32linkfedilink
minus-squareNaibofTabrlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down3·5 months agoDo you want an exponentially growing database? Because this is how you get an exponentially growing database.
minus-squareGladaed@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down1·5 months agoJust save the changes, ffs. We got tools for this.
minus-squareGladaed@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoYes. But it is not an exponential growth if you only save the changes instead of the whole message oveg and over again.
minus-squareNaibofTabrlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoRight, but saving an edit history of every change to every comment is a geometric increase over just saving the edit to the original comment.
minus-squareGladaed@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoIt only increases cost by the amount of data that was changed. That’s usually not a lot.
minus-squarepiccolo@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agogit commit --amend -m “spellcheck”
Do you want an exponentially growing database? Because this is how you get an exponentially growing database.
Just save the changes, ffs. We got tools for this.
save them… to the database?
Yes. But it is not an exponential growth if you only save the changes instead of the whole message oveg and over again.
Right, but saving an edit history of every change to every comment is a geometric increase over just saving the edit to the original comment.
It only increases cost by the amount of data that was changed. That’s usually not a lot.
git commit --amend -m “spellcheck”
Don’t amend!