Profane commit-messages from GitHub

Commit Logs From Last Night: highlights funny, profane source-code commit-messages from GitHub, as bedraggled hackers find themselves leaving notes documenting their desperate situations. Some recent ones:

WHY THE GODDAMMIT WHY WHY WHY HAROGIHAROGIAHRGOIA FUCK ME

render testing I DREW SOME LINES! reverted render panel to grew (white looks shit)

Merge pull request #15 from ruvetia/font_awesome_is_fucking_awesome include font-awesome into the projcet

Commit Logs From Last Night (via JWZ)

• [fnc]

  I recall a three week period near the end of a sustained end-of-project crunch when I wrote all of my submit messages in the form of haikus.  Can’t remember any, as that whole period is hazy in my mind.

  • [dragonfrog]

    I had a colleague in a university lab who, when it was his turn to take meeting minutes, wrote them entirely in haiku.  After that, he somehow never got asked to to take the minutes again.

• [SamSam]

  Now I want someone to write a script that cross-references the profanity with what language the commit was written in (initial glance shows an awful lot of Ruby) and frameworks, etc.

  If we get over-representation of any languages or frameworks, we can all know to stop writing new projects with them, either because the langage is a pain in the ass or because all your potential collaborators are borderline psychopaths.

  • [Nathan Hornby]

    Good idea!

  • [Bryan White]

    This was done some time ago: http://andrewvos.com/2011/02/21/amount-of-profanity-in-git-commit-messages-per-programming-language/

    • [SamSam]

      Holy moley, that person saw my comment, went back in time, and made it happen!

    • [Sigmund_Jung]

      And that’s why I love PHP

• [Heevee Lister]

  I hate to sound like the resident curmudgeon – and I’m no bluenose – but the comments I remember running across in source from the 1980s and 1990s were a lot more amusing and a lot less scatological.  Even the (in)famous comments in the leaked Win2k source a decade or so ago were more amusing than this barrage of 6th grade profanity.  Yuck.

  • [retepslluerb]

    I’ll take the role of the resident curmudgeon.  I *hate* commits like this. Comments, too. 

    I don’t expect treatises, but please: Is it too much to ask for a clear, concise and fact-checked info about what was in this commit? And why?

    Some people actually use the history for work.

  • [Nathan Hornby]

    This stuff is ephemeral though – it’s gone and forgotten in the next commit. It’s a demonstration of frustration, rather than scripted humour, which is what you see in source code comments (which probably often consume more effort than the code they’re commenting on).

  • [Jerril]

    ;TL,DR: You’re complaining that a script that looks for scatological comments is looking for for scatological comments.

     You’re looking at the results of a dumb script. The dumb script can’t judge humour, and writing a smart script that can would be a nobel-prize wining accomplishment not to be wasted on scraping Git for funny commit comments.

    It’s way the hell easier to write a script that scrapes for comments that contain a list of words… and frankly I run out of ideas for “universally funny words” shortly after “rutabega” so you might as well scrape for coders who have gone completely insane at 2 AM.

• [Sigmund_Jung]

  The best part is that now I don’t feel totally useless when dealing with code problems — I can see many people feel the same way!