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		tormeh on July 6, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Open source code with profanity in comments is sta... In which situation would you not have access to the repo? I guess if it's a library or something, but libraries must always be documented in a different way to business code.

ShadowBanThis01 on July 6, 2023 [–]

Maybe you're a contractor. Maybe it's legacy code that has simply been archived. Maybe the network is down. Maybe there was a bad migration.

Sidecars generally suck because they get lost.

cerved on July 7, 2023 | [–]

If that's the case, you have bigger problems than documentation

ShadowBanThis01 on July 7, 2023 | | [–]

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