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If you check the pull requests tab there's also a showcase of why some people resist putting stuff on GitHub. Most of the pull requests are low-effort tickets like "update bart.css" with no further explanation and a bunch of random changes in the diff.


Those almost certainly come from people using GitHub's web editor - the default commit message is 'Update {filename}'. I despise it, I don't know why they encourage such useless commit messages, there should be no default message because there can be no useful default.


There are two extremely simple solutions to that:

- Disable issues (pretty sure Github didn't give that option to me alone)

- Write on the readme that you're not working on this and will ignore/close any submitted issues

"Resisting" putting stuff on GitHub is not necessary.




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