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Comment by gunn | Hacker News Reader

There's quite a lot of code in the packages dir - 76,000 lines of typescript.

It was all added in the first commit 45 mins ago. Why would they hide their commit history?

Also I found this funny - comments in package.json:

  "//": "Look! No deps!",
  "dependencies": {},
  "///": "Only used for static type checking",
  "devDependencies": {

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> Why would they hide their commit history?

I'm the only author at the moment. The project started off years ago as a side project without any commit history, and what little history there was over the years wasn't very thorough. Prior to the open sourcing I've been working on it internally and still did pretty massive diffs that changed thousands of files, still without good history. It's something I'm working on though and will obviously need to be accountable for now that the project is public.

Thanks for the reply. It looks well organized now. I'll be keeping my eye on it.

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