Why wouldn’t it? Sounds like the git hook is probably just grep…

Then why have a function?

Because of you made a typo, you're more likely to notice than in a comment or string, because it will fail, even at build time if you're using a compiled language

Right, but the whole point of DO NOT SUBMIT is that it doesn’t need to be in the compilation step. It can be in data files, comments, etc. You can change your syntax highlighting theme to spot the typos x (I added them with a keyboard shortcut anyways)

You need to compile the code with all the debugging logging in it so it can run and print out all the “got here 3”s and so forth.

Because it distinguishes the normal logging function from the ones that are for local debugging.