node-sass VS Git

For many years, Culture Amp took the second option, and distributed shared components without compiled CSS. This meant that every app that consumed shared components needed to include the necessary CSS build tooling – at that time CSS Modules and node-sass – with a compatible version and configuration. This was relatively easy to set up, but over time proved difficult to maintain. When node-sass was deprecated in favour of (the much faster but slightly incompatible) Dart Sass, this demanded a difficult lock-step migration across all those codebases, which we have yet to achieve. And as new applications have switched to Tailwind for their own styles, they've had to continue to maintain those old build tools in parallel for the shared components' styles.

The project that we developed use a node version 14.18.0 and we use a node-sass version 4.14.1 package and this package also deprecated for today.

ES 2 component Sass files are compiled using dart Sass instead of node-sass. This change was made because node-sass has been deprecated.

node-sass - yes i am aware its deprecated 😅

C:\Webparts\react-script-editor>npm install npm WARN deprecated @types/[email protected]: This is a stub types definition. classnames provides its own type definitions, so you do not need this installed. > [email protected] install C:\Webparts\react-script-editor\node_modules\node-sass > node scripts/install.js Downloading binary from https://github.com/sass/node-sass/releases/download/v4.12.0/win32-x64-83_binding.node Cannot download "https://github.com/sass/node-sass/releases/download/v4.12.0/win32-x64-83_binding.node": HTTP error 404 Not Found

Are you referring to when it's trying to download 'https://github.com/sass/node-sass/releases/download/v4.12.0/win32-x64-83_binding.node' after I typed 'npm install'?

This Github issue helped me a lot.

remote: ERROR in ./app/javascript/stylesheets/application.scss (./node_modules/css-loader/dist/cjs.js??ref--7-1!./node_modules/postcss-loader/src??ref--7-2!./node_modules/sass-loader/dist/cjs.js??ref--7-3!./app/javascript/stylesheets/application.scss) remote: Module build failed (from ./node_modules/sass-loader/dist/cjs.js): remote: Error: Node Sass does not yet support your current environment: Linux 64-bit with Unsupported runtime (93) remote: For more information on which environments are supported please see: remote: https://github.com/sass/node-sass/releases/tag/v4.14.1 remote: at module.exports (/tmp/build_37040035/node_modules/node-sass/lib/binding.js:13:13) remote: at Object. (/tmp/build_37040035/node_modules/node-sass/lib/index.js:14:35) remote: at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1101:14) remote: at Object.Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1153:10) remote: at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:981:32) remote: at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:822:12) remote: at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1005:19) remote: at require (node:internal/modules/cjs/helpers:102:18) remote: at getDefaultSassImpl (/tmp/build_37040035/node_modules/sass-loader/dist/index.js:198:10) remote: at Object.loader (/tmp/build_37040035/node_modules/sass-loader/dist/index.js:80:29)

Ah damn I did not save the full error before uninstalling everything and rethinking my next move. From the various posts it seems I'm not the only one having the same issue, but never really found out what the smartest solution would be to go forward as none of those suggestions worked with the latest node-js version.

Boy, I can't find this either (but also, the kernel mailing list is _really_ difficult to search). I really remember Linus saying something like "it's not a real SCM, but maybe someone could build one on top of it someday" or something like that, but I cannot figure out how to find that.

You _can_ see, though, that in his first README, he refers to what he's building as not a "real SCM":

https://github.com/git/git/commit/e83c5163316f89bfbde7d9ab23...

Here is the direct link, as HN somehow removes the query string: https://github.com/git/git/commits?author=peff&since=2023-10...

I understand all that.

I'm saying, if you write a survey and one of the possible answers is "diff", but you don't clearly define what you mean by "diff", then don't be surprised if respondents use any reasonable definition that makes sense to them. Ask an ambiguous question, get a mishmash of answers.

The thing that Git uses for packfiles is called a "delta" by Git, but it's also reasonable to call it a "diff". After all, Git's delta algorithm is "greatly inspired by parts of LibXDiff from Davide Libenzi"[1]. Not LibXDelta but LibXDiff.

Yes, how Git stores blobs (using deltas) is orthogonal to how Git uses blobs. But while that orthogonality is useful for reasoning about Git, it's not wrong to think of a commit as the totality of what Git does, including that optimization. (Some people, when learning Git, stumble over the way it's described as storing full copies, think it's wasteful. For them to wrap their heads around Git, they have to understand that the optimization exists. Which makes sense because Git probably wouldn't be practical if it lacked that optimization.)

The reason I'm bringing all this up is, if you're trying to explain Git, which is what the original article is about, then it's very important to keep in mind that someone who is learning Git needs to know what you mean when you say "diff". Most people who already know Git would tend to gravitate toward the definition of "diff" that you're assuming (the thing that Git computes on the fly and never stores), but people who already know Git aren't the target audience when you're teaching Git.

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[1] https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/diff-delta.c

Didn't Git have a new default merge strategy, `ort` https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/RelNote... ?

Yes, but you are referring to standalone scripts, not functions defined within a Bash script.

Compare for example the following helper code used for git command completion inside Bash and inside PowerShell.

Bash: https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/contrib/completion/gi...