code fisting


a software development term describing the act of shoving large amounts of code at people where it isn’t wanted. often used in reference to large, untested, and/or unnecessary patches or commits to open source projects. originally coined by zed shaw on website for the mongrel web server. a reference to fisting.
“dude, what’s up with that thousand-line, no-tests commit you made? what the h-ll does it even do? it broke the build a week ago and you still haven’t fixed it. stop code fisting…”

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