Comment by roelschroeven
20 hours ago
> P.S. The stack overflow question for splitting commits discusses the old and cumbersome approach. The 20th answer discusses the right approach but has a meagre 2 upvotes as of today, compared to 2656 for the older top answer with the cumbersome approach.
It now has 5 upvotes. A long way to go to 2656 but at least it's going in the right direction.
Still, it shows how incredibly broken the StackOverflow system is. It's completely normal for older answers to become outdated, but they still act like the old answers are laws of nature.
I think this is harsh criticism. It's because not many people use SO any more.
One of SO's selling points was that outdated answers get replaced with the more modern, better ones - and it worked for many, many years.
... until they decided it was a good idea to train all power users to grief new users off the site.
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> One of SO's selling points was that outdated answers get replaced with the more modern (...)
I don't think this is description is right. What you describe as "outdated answers" are actually answers to apply up to specific releases. Just because a project launches a release that rolls out a new feature that doesn't render the old answers wrong or stale.
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At least the answer is there. When asking ChatGPT (Plus) the same question, it only suggests the old ways.
> At least the answer is there. When asking ChatGPT (Plus) the same question, it only suggests the old ways.
The old ways are still the right answer for multiple reasons, such as they still clearly work with the latest release and odds are you and everyone around you is not running the latest and greatest version of git installed.
It’s now the 6th answer instead of the 20th, and if answers are sorted by Trending (which I recommend people do) in the dropdown, it’s currently 3rd.
These answers are ~15 years apart, so the vote difference is not surprising.
I personally sort by ‘date modified (newest first)’ on StackExchange sites.
> I personally sort by ‘date modified (newest first)’ on StackExchange sites.
Sites such as stack overflow would improve significantly if they actively tagged questions and answers with version numbers they would be applicable to.