What was funnies source control (regardless of system) commit message you encountered?
http://whatthecommit.com/ comes to mind…
“Stuff ain’t right.”
In all fairness it was tangentally involved with Government IT.
Oh, we have a government telephone switch that was full of ‘witticisms’ that are QA made the guilty developer remove.
Yeah, I know about it, but I’m talking about actual commit messages not some that author of this site made up. Though pretty entertaining nonetheless.
As does this post. Even though it’s comments instead of commits.
Some gems from the first page:
//
// Dear maintainer:
//
// Once you are done trying to 'optimize' this routine,
// and have realized what a terrible mistake that was,
// please increment the following counter as a warning
// to the next guy:
//
// total_hours_wasted_here = 42
//
// sometimes I believe compiler ignores all my comments
// Replaces with spaces the braces in cases where braces in places cause stasis
$str = str_replace(array("\{","\}")," ",$str);
In a section of mapping code,
// Search for nearby Mexican food restaurants
Nah, liked this more:
Exception up = new Exception("Something is really wrong.");
throw up; //ha ha
//edit: And if we are on comments, I’ve found this gem in my code that I totally forgot about:
//Here there be dragons
and at the end of the file:
//No, really
// ,###, ,###,
// ,##\\\#,#\\\#,
// ,###\\\\\\#\\\\\#,
// ,##\\\\\\\\\#\\\\\\#,
// #\\#\\\\\\\\#\\\\\\\#
// ...,###########, ,#\\\#\\\\\\\#\\\\\\\#
// .,########## # ,#\\\\#\\\\\\#\\\\\\\\\#,
// , ,####### #' ,###\\\\\\##\\\#\\\\\\\\\\\##,
// #, ,## #############' ,###\\\\\\\\\\\#\\#\\\\\\\\\\\\\##,
// ##, ,###################' ,###\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\##\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\###,
// ###, ,#####################' ,#\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\#\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\#\\#,
// '###, .,#####################' ,####\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\#\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\###\\\\#
// '###, ,#########.-.##########' ,######\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\####\\\\\\\\\\\\####\\\\\\\#
// '###,####### # | # ######' ,###\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\###\\\\\\\\\#######\\\\\\\\\\#'
// ###########################, ,##\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\#\\\\\\######\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\#
// ################################ ,###\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\##\\\####\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\#
// #%% #############################..#\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\##\\###\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\##'
// ##################################\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\####\\###\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\##'
// ######,..............,############\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\####\\\###\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\###'
// #,....'%*$@$%^**^@!.#############\\\\\\\\\\\\###\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\##'
// #%$%^...............'################\\########\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\##'
// #....'##################################\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\#####
// ########################################\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\############'
// ############################ #####################
// #\\\\\#######################
// #\\\\\\\\####################
// #\\\\\\\#################
// ######################
// #\\\\\############
// #\\\\\#############
// ###################
Judging from commit logs, it was done about month ago. Since I’m the sole developer, that probably was me. Sorry!