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And with that, welcome to coding blocks. I'm Michael Outlaw. I'm Alan Underwood, and I'm

Joe Zach. And we've gathered around the proverbial water cooler to discuss source control today.

That's right in today's episode we're going to step away from the keyboard and take our propeller hats off and stay out of the weeds if possible.

And without further ado, I want to start off with a story.

All right? So there was a situation where another person wanted to commit some stuff that they were working on.

And they were convinced that their stuff was fine, it was all good, but there was a compiler.

They couldn't compile.

And this person was adamant on committing the code and pushing it into the main repository because it was not their problem and whatever.

And I was taking the stance that no, no, no, no. Even if it wasn't you know any fault of yours

you've now found it it's your responsibility you you should do the honorable thing

and correct it you shouldn't knowingly commit it if you know that there's a problem there.

And we went back and forth on it until finally, lo and behold, we found out, oh, it did turn out to be a problem that was newly introduced

and got fixed beforehand so it reluctantly the compile error was fixed and prior to the commit was being pushed into the main repository.

But it brought me into this, you know, greater concept here where is the moral of the story being you should not

knowingly commit broken code so let me get the straight so we've got maybe the build wasn't working when they got started but how you know how do you test your code if you can't compile it?

Yes, and that is a very valid question.

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