Github is a website, it's it's job to make the browser handle it well.

While I agree that a big diff isn't a good idea, I disagree with the notion that one should develop in such a way that makes Github (or whatever VCS you're using) work right.

I don't think working within the capabilities of the VCS you're using should ever be a priority for a software development effort; rather I think the VCS's priority should be to allow for their use within most contexts of software development. (the other way around)

" This change deletes the C implementations of the Go compiler and assembler from the master branch." is logically related as it could be. Everybody has a different interpretation of it, I guess.

This is a merge commit, which means the diff is going to include all the changes on the branch being merged. Even if all the individual commits are small, a merge diff can still be very large.

It's a merge commit, so naturally it's going to have a huge diff even if the actual work was done in much smaller increments.

Because he automatically translated all the code using a tool.