8,000+ lines in a single file??? I’m going to be sick
Oh that's not uncommon in the industry. Especially when dealing with legacy code.
Personal best was 40k lines in a file called
misc.ccontaining all the global functions that don't fit anywhere else.Runner up was the one where each developer dumped their miscellaneous functions in their own files, so they don't have to deal with merge conflicts. Which means we had x1.c, x2.c, x3.c ... etc.
Oh trust me, I know. Personal best is 20k lines in a Java file that served as the main control flow of the entire software. Just because it’s common doesn’t make me any less disgusted 😂
Thankfully now I’m the asshole senior who gets to prevent this kind of stuff from happening in the first place. But like you said, that doesn’t help with legacy applications lol.
I work for one of the mega corporations as a decently high level software engineer. My team's job is to maintain legacy code. This is my life. 😞
Ah, a fellow janitorial staff. Some of these shit have been there so long they've seeped through the walls. There's no way to get rid of them, short of demolishing the whole building.
You should see Firefox source code, there are many files like that. Honestly it's better than having 100,000 files which is what would happen with the size of Firefox.
That's not even that much. I've seen longer!
...that's what she said
Yep, Longest Common Subsequence is usually greedy and that’s the earliest set of lines that satisfies the search. Happens when you just treat a file as lines and only match those.
You can get better results with more syntax or content awareness. Chunk into paragraphs or code blocks or functions, then sentences or statement lists, then lines, then words, etc. I think Beyond Compare can do this.
Do you like phabricator?
Its okay, I've only used it for contributing to firefox so I'm not that familiar.
