Why would you touch the README file hundreds of times a year?
replyYou're right about package.json, pnpm-lock etc though, but those are easy to filter out if the project in question uses them.
> Why would you touch the README file hundreds of times a year?
replyYou're right, perhaps I should have said CHANGELOG etc.
Although some projects e.g. bump version numbers in README or add extra one-liner examples ....
Some readme files include changelogs. But aside from that I think this can still net some useful information. I like to look at the most recently changed files in a repo as well.
replyFair point. I skip lockfiles, changelogs, and generated code. The first application file on the list is the one that matters. Should have been explicit about that in the post.
replyIt’s easy enough to filter those out with grep. It still is relatively meaningless. If the team incrementally adds things then it’s just going to show what additions were made. It isn’t churn at all.
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