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"A marathon of clicking 'next page,' but the view is worth it." So, this commenter practically worships git, but apparently doesn't actually understand it well

"A marathon of clicking 'next page,' but the view is worth it." So, this commenter practically worships git, but apparently doesn't actually understand it well enough to know a better way to find the hash of the first commit and punch that into Github. Or, it was just a joke and they got there the quick way, but still felt obliged to post a dumb joke to inflate their own ego by "leaving their mark" on git. Maybe I'm being too mean, but yeah, I also think a lot of the comments are pointless.

nathanvanfleet 12y ago
It's probably the "I F*cking Love Computer Science" sub-reddits.
- afandian 12y ago
  It's lots of subreddits. There are some serious ones, but the main-stream ones all contain the usual memes, injokes etc. I enjoy diving into reddit every now and again. But I use github for work (and code for fun, although it's 'serious' fun). Although open-source collaboration is a fundamentally social activity, I think that mixing source control with a social network does inevitably leads to these kinds of comments. And I wouldn't dream of mixing that up with my professional identity. Maybe it's just a marker of how versatile github is, and the community of people who write programs and put them in source control.
dyeje 12y ago
AFAIK you can't search by commit hash. You have to do some URL manipulation.
- kachnuv_ocasek 12y ago
  git rev-list --max-parents=0 HEAD | tail -1
  - tinalumfoil 12y ago
    Without having to pipe: > git rev-list --reverse HEAD
dlitz 12y ago
> Maybe I'm being too mean, but yeah, I also think a lot of the comments are pointless. Yeah, I think you're being a little mean. If you browse to that user's GitHub page, it looks like it's just somebody new who's excited about software. Good for them. The comments are pointless, sure, but also harmless. Similar comments might crowd out productive discussion if they were on (say) the head of the master branch, but I doubt that any serious development is happening on git's initial commit anyway. Let the new people have their fun. As far as newbie disruptiveness goes, it could be far worse. When I was getting started with Linux, I posted this cringeworthy gem to LKML, now enshrined in the archives for all eternity: https://lkml.org/lkml/2000/10/22/69 https://lkml.org/lkml/2000/10/22/69 If newbies today are merely posting "yay, git!" and "thank you!" to a secondary forum where it doesn't disrupt development, I'd say they're doing pretty well in comparison. :)
- scintill76 12y ago
  Yeah, fair enough. Good on you for linking your own cringey post. I think a lot of developers have those early cringe moments, especially if they were young when they started. As far as disruption, it did occur to me later that somebody may be getting notification emails about these comments. But it's not too bad, as I assume they could just send the emails to /dev/null, since Github is not the official host of git. (As a tangential note, I sort of wish Github would handle this better. So many Github-mirrored projects end up with something like "don't submit pull requests or open issues here, they will be ignored" in their repo description.)

nathanvanfleet 12y ago

It's probably the "I F*cking Love Computer Science" sub-reddits.

afandian 12y ago
It's lots of subreddits. There are some serious ones, but the main-stream ones all contain the usual memes, injokes etc. I enjoy diving into reddit every now and again. But I use github for work (and code for fun, although it's 'serious' fun). Although open-source collaboration is a fundamentally social activity, I think that mixing source control with a social network does inevitably leads to these kinds of comments. And I wouldn't dream of mixing that up with my professional identity. Maybe it's just a marker of how versatile github is, and the community of people who write programs and put them in source control.

dyeje 12y ago

AFAIK you can't search by commit hash. You have to do some URL manipulation.

kachnuv_ocasek 12y ago
git rev-list --max-parents=0 HEAD | tail -1
- tinalumfoil 12y ago
  Without having to pipe: > git rev-list --reverse HEAD

dlitz 12y ago

> Maybe I'm being too mean, but yeah, I also think a lot of the comments are pointless. Yeah, I think you're being a little mean. If you browse to that user's GitHub page, it looks like it's just somebody new who's excited about software. Good for them. The comments are pointless, sure, but also harmless. Similar comments might crowd out productive discussion if they were on (say) the head of the master branch, but I doubt that any serious development is happening on git's initial commit anyway. Let the new people have their fun. As far as newbie disruptiveness goes, it could be far worse. When I was getting started with Linux, I posted this cringeworthy gem to LKML, now enshrined in the archives for all eternity: https://lkml.org/lkml/2000/10/22/69 https://lkml.org/lkml/2000/10/22/69 If newbies today are merely posting "yay, git!" and "thank you!" to a secondary forum where it doesn't disrupt development, I'd say they're doing pretty well in comparison. :)

scintill76 12y ago
Yeah, fair enough. Good on you for linking your own cringey post. I think a lot of developers have those early cringe moments, especially if they were young when they started. As far as disruption, it did occur to me later that somebody may be getting notification emails about these comments. But it's not too bad, as I assume they could just send the emails to /dev/null, since Github is not the official host of git. (As a tangential note, I sort of wish Github would handle this better. So many Github-mirrored projects end up with something like "don't submit pull requests or open issues here, they will be ignored" in their repo description.)