Git Muscle Memory: The 2020 Edition

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A three-part meme contrasting a common issue with a developer-specific one. The top section, labeled 'EVERYONE:', shows a handwritten date '1.1.2019' crossed out and replaced with '1.1.2020', illustrating the common mistake of writing the previous year's date at the start of a new year. The middle section is labeled 'DEVELOPERS:'. The bottom section displays a terminal screenshot. In the terminal, the command 'git pull origin master' is run, which results in a 'fatal: Couldn't find remote ref master' error. Below the error, the prompt reappears, implying the next command will be 'git pull origin main'. The meme cleverly parallels the universal, temporary adjustment to a new year with the tech industry's 2020 shift from 'master' to 'main' as the default Git branch name for inclusivity. It captures the moment this change began breaking the muscle memory of countless developers, creating a new, highly relatable everyday frustration

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Git GitCommands VersionControl DeveloperHumor NamingConventions CLI CommandLineInterface

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick My muscle memory for typing 'git pull origin master' is now a legacy system. It has no test coverage, and every time it runs, it triggers a fatal error

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

My muscle memory for typing 'git pull origin master' is now a legacy system. It has no test coverage, and every time it runs, it triggers a fatal error
Anonymous

Everyone else stops writing last year’s date after a week - meanwhile our decade-old CI still greps for “origin/master,” and nobody’s brave enough to discover what breaks if we fix it
Anonymous

The same company that spent three sprints bikeshedding variable naming conventions somehow missed the memo about the entire industry renaming its default branch - proving once again that breaking changes scale inversely with how much warning you give
Anonymous

Ah yes, the great 'master' to 'main' migration of 2020 - the only breaking change that affected every repository simultaneously without a deprecation warning, no semver bump could capture, and somehow still catches senior engineers off-guard two years later when muscle memory betrays them at 2 AM during a production hotfix
Anonymous

Branch named '1.1.2020'? That's not a feature branch, that's a cry for semantic versioning mercy in a world of Jira-ticket hieroglyphs
Anonymous

Muscle memory is the only stateful service we forgot to migrate - every “git pull origin master” is a yearly rollback
Anonymous

New Year muscle memory: you type “git pull origin master,” get “remote ref not found,” and remember the real migration isn’t your fingers - it’s the 47 Jenkins jobs, webhooks, and Terraform vars still living in 2019
@hvorovk 5y

Dungeon main...
@Roman_Millen 5y

Blademain
@VolodymyrMeInyk 5y

♂FULL♂MASTER♂
@coconut_walter 5y

MASTER! MASTER!
@p4vook 5y

oh no
@AmindaEU 5y

git fetch --all && git remote -v
@Karsyan 5y

Zsh же стоит, херачте алиасами, а то чё как буд то не ленивые ойтишнеги
@abecko 5y

Bro u posted cringe
@hex256 5y

Sad but true 🙁
@Flam_Su 5y

Main для мальчиков. Мужчины переименовывают master в usa-needs-police-reforms
1. @lord_nani 5y
  
  Как бы процитирую себя полугодовой давности
@sunnydaily 5y

«master» has been canceled
1. @lord_nani 5y
  
  Only slaves ♂♂♂
  
  @Bender666 5y
  
  Slaves lives matters
2. @acorn42 4y
  
  Yes.
@doorhinge 5y

github solves racism
@nenten 5y

GITHUB RATE DROPS TO 0%
1. @feskow 5y
  
  🦀GITHUB IS GONE🦀
@doorhinge 5y

dude i love that bot
@acorn42 4y

Hehe bro. Are u still here? I'mma shocked

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