I understand that it's not worth the cost to cleanup the history, but it's always frustrating to see such a project come with a 100kloc "initial" commit.
Feel free to dispute that, though. There may be some scenarios I'm not considering.
if (x < 42 && y > 1776)
useConfabulator = false;
- a repository that's handled as a first class "source code ledger" (pick one or several of: proper branching/merging, atomic commits, issues referenced in commit messages, etc).
- a repository full of "git commit -a -m 'ill fix this bug later, TGIF'" whose history makes no sense.
I don't want to open the debate on which one is preferable or not (most people agree that git bisect is handy, but it is open to debate whether it's worth the cost).
What I'm wondering is how it looked and why it was rewritten. The most probable reason is that they wanted to make sure that nothing sensitive was exposed (non-redistributable embedded dependencies, information on their infrastructure, ...). But it's also possible that this was started as a type-2 repository and they don't want to expose this image.
I tend to think that every code should be written (and developed) as it was open sourced one day, but as always there's a cost trade-off in here.
Anyway, thanks for open sourcing this piece of software!
There were many commits that don't make a lot of sense to anyone but me probably, since they were so massive in scale...especially leading up to this release. For example, moving the configuration from web.config-ish xml style to JSON in preparation for a larger system I wanted to have done before open sourcing it to not hose adopters later.
That being said, most commits are decent size features or several every day or two. This was completely a side-project for me, happening while waiting on something or in the evening. Going forward, we're shifting focus to monitoring and will be giving some real dedicated time to it. We will be building our own monitoring system as a whole, polling, push, agents, etc...and Opserver is a large part of that big picture. Those commits will be much more interesting, and you're going to see them all.
If there are any questions though, I'm happy to answer them...we're pretty wide open, just short of sharing logins and passwords.