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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/25
The manual process of getting back to the earliest commit of a GitHub repository is easy for small repositories, but for a large one it is very tedious.
TL;DR: there are various ways, but the easiest was the INIT Bookmarklet below.
Note: 2 weeks before the scheduled post made it to the front of the queue, I got a report¹ that it started to fail. Here it still works.
It’s hard to debug because of the functional programming approach taken.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/25
From a while back, which I initially missed because it was in the midst figuring out my ver increasing bowel problems leading up to all my cancer treatments, but still relevant:
[Wayback/Archive] Immo Landwerth @terrajobst@hachyderm.io on Twitter: “That’s why C# emits
.callvirtinstructions, even if the method isn’t virtual. That forces a call sitenullcheck.”
Except inside [Wayback/Archive] Extension Methods, referring to this will never return null.
Yes you can work around this using things like reflection, but the C# compiler will emit .callvirt for any method call which does an implicit null check by the caller which means you never have to check that in callees.
The above tweet quoted the first message of the [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @MStrehovsky on Thread Reader App on working around this .callvirt protection:
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 