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VersionControl Post #2648 · source on Telegram

The Ultimate Full-Stack Workout: One Push Per Line Change

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A four-panel comic strip meme illustrating a conversation between a regular person and an extremely muscular character. In the first panel, the regular person, with orange hair and a yellow shirt, asks the buff character, 'WOW! HOW DID YOU GET LIKE THAT?'. Over the muscular character's chest is a grey box resembling a GitHub commit counter, showing an absurdly high number: '69,420,964 commits'. In the second panel, the buff character explains, 'EVERY TIME I change a line...'. In the third panel, he continues, '...I DO ONE PUSH'. In the final panel, the orange-haired person stares in horror, exclaiming, 'JESUS CHRIST.'. The meme satirizes terrible version control hygiene by taking the concept of frequent commits to an illogical extreme. Pushing every single line change would create a nightmarishly cluttered commit history, spam the CI/CD pipeline, and make code reviews utterly impossible, highlighting a complete misunderstanding of atomic commits and proper Git workflow

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick The pull request contains 69,420,964 commits. The reviewer left one comment: 'Can you squash this?'
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    The pull request contains 69,420,964 commits. The reviewer left one comment: 'Can you squash this?'

  2. Anonymous

    "Atomic commits are great - until each electron gets its own SHA and running git bisect feels like applying for beam time at CERN."

  3. Anonymous

    This is what happens when someone takes 'commit early, commit often' so literally that their git log looks like a keystroke logger and their commit messages have devolved into single emoji because writing 'fixed typo' 69 million times broke their spirit

  4. Anonymous

    Ah yes, the legendary 69 million commit developer - proof that 'atomic commits' can be taken to subatomic levels. At this rate, their git log is longer than the Linux kernel's entire history, and `git bisect` would take until heat death of the universe. Meanwhile, their PR reviewers have aged into retirement trying to understand why changing a semicolon required 47 separate commits. This is what happens when you interpret 'commit early, commit often' as 'commit every keystroke, commit every breath.'

  5. Anonymous

    In a guarded monorepo, one push per line is the fastest way to DDoS your own CI and turn Git history into Kafka

  6. Anonymous

    This is what happens when 'push on save' meets a monorepo with required checks - every semicolon funds another hour of GitHub Actions and 400 Slack notifications

  7. Anonymous

    Virgin dev rebases to a clean history. Chad dev: one push, monorepo commit count escapes Git's int32 limit

  8. @choke_hazard 5y

    Why line, not character?

    1. @sylfn 5y

      not character, but byte

      1. @abel1502 5y

        That breaks unicode in about half of the commits)

        1. @sylfn 5y

          no one cares about unicode if you use koi8

          1. @abel1502 5y

            But there a character is literally synonimous to a byte. The only case where they are different are multibyte encodings, and I don't know any besides various unicodes (although there most likely are some)

            1. @gizlu 5y

              "character" has over 9000 meanings, and the one that end user usually thinks of, is definitly not byte synonym (at least in case of unicode)

              1. @abel1502 5y

                You must have misunderstood my statement - your statement accords to mine, i.e. "in multibyte encodings, such as all the unicodes, a character isn't the same as a byte". And, overall, even in terms of bare abstractions, when we're talking about texts, it's better to treat character as the fundamental unit, because there are many different ways to represent text in binary, so there's no good way to strictly associate characters to bytes

                1. @gizlu 5y

                  Oh, yes. I need more sleep

  9. @f9c49f0c1e749a4a7fd9d642e4728bc 5y

    😂😂😂

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