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Overnight Video: Jonathan Coulton, Nobody Loves You Like Me

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Eventual Carrion3/02/2012 7:42:36 am PST

re: #163 Obdicut

I have to enter a comment every time I commit files to my version control system. Since most of the time, the comment is unnecessary since the file itself is self-explanatory or I’ve documented the change elsewhere, I often just type a few random characters. You need at least 3 for it to accept the comment.

I was going over my commit history the other day, and a lot of them were “KKK”.

When I have to termServ into a server to do something and it had gone down for some reason and rebooted, it asks me for a reboot code and a reason. So for the reboot code I put “ID10T” and for the reason I put “I don’t know!”. Wonder how may of our hardware people actually look at the reboot log at my antics.

Our code base also wants a reason every time we check in checked out code. When I change code just to test something and then change it back, I just check it in with the reason “Wouldn’t you like to know”. I could just undo the checkout but what fun would that be?