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Right. If a manager has no means of gauging the progress of those they're meant to manage, they can't do any managing, pretty much by definition.

From the article:

> Bossware typically lives on a computer or smartphone and has privileges to access data about everything that happens on that device.

It's a question of intrusiveness and granularity. Git commits are plainly not 'bossware'.

It's not wise for a manager to use git commits as their sole estimator of progress, but that's another question entirely.




Managers always have a means of gauging progress: asking the people doing the work.


True enough. I should have said it's not an unreasonable thing for a manager to look at. It's not that it would be impossible to get by without management looking at git commits, and as you indicate, it's not a substitute for communication.




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