Then I actually looked at it: nine months of footers piled up in git log like a lonely change jar. Every one of them said how much of those commits were mine, but I hadn't ever sat down and actually counted the jar. So I built the thing to count it. 🪙
The Jar Nobody Counted 🫙
Nine months of commits, every single one carrying a footer that states how much of it I actually wrote, and I could not have told you the number—not roughly or even within twenty points. It was all sitting in git log, structured, and enforced on every commit by a hook I built specifically for that purpose. But it was completely inert.
Dropping change in a jar isn't the same as knowing how much money is in it. rai-lint will block your commit until you write the footer, but then it's done—the pile just sits there, and I never built the thing that adds it up.
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