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xkcd #1296

Git Commit

by Randall MunroePublished: License: CC BY-NC 2.5

Comic: Git Commit (xkcd #1296). Transcript below.

Git Commit © Randall Munroe · xkcd · CC BY-NC 2.5

Hover textMerge branch 'asdfasjkfdlas/alkdjf' into sdkjfls-final

Why it lands

The log reads like a timeline of someone's focus: specific messages at the start, then "more code", then a keyboard mash, then a cry for help. Anyone who has run git log on their own late-night branch has seen this. In the Japanese version the keyboard mash becomes ふじこlp, the Japanese internet's stock image of a panicked keyboard.

Transcript

  1. COMMENT
  2. DATE
  3. CREATED MAIN LOOP & TIMING CONTROL
  4. ENABLED CONFIG FILE PARSING
  5. MISC BUGFIXES
  6. CODE ADDITIONS/EDITS
  7. MORE CODE
  8. HERE HAVE CODE
  9. AAAAAAAA
  10. ADKFJSLKDFJSDKLFJ
  11. MY HANDS ARE TYPING WORDS
  12. HAAAAAAAAANDS
  13. 14 HOURS AGO
  14. 9 HOURS AGO
  15. 5 HOURS AGO
  16. 4 HOURS AGO
  17. 4 HOURS AGO
  18. 4 HOURS AGO
  19. 3 HOURS AGO
  20. 3 HOURS AGO
  21. 2 HOURS AGO
  22. 2 HOURS AGO
  23. AS A PROJECT DRAGS ON, MY GIT COMMIT MESSAGES GET LESS AND LESS INFORMATIVE.

Credits

Original
Git Commit — Randall Munroe, xkcd

The English page shows the original image unmodified. The Japanese page shows an adaptation by wtfe²: the lettering was erased from the art and replaced with a Japanese translation. The adaptation is shared under the same license as the original.