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When you look at code you wrote last year (lemmy.ml)
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[–] fayoh@sopuli.xyz 29 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Me at a previous workplace.

-This is a piece of shit, who is the code owner of this module.

  • Ah, it's me ("inheriting" code ownership when someone left was common)

  • Who did this change

  • Ah, it was me

  • Surely I just made a minor change to this line here, who wrote the function.

  • it was me, it was me all the way down

Fits the general theme of the thread as it was not giving any trouble for a year before being found.

[–] antimidas@sopuli.xyz 23 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The more frustrated you are when running git blame the more likely the command turns out to be a mirror.

[–] Horrabin@programming.dev 6 points 4 days ago

This is where the programmer's way to humbleness starts :-D

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Last time that happened to me, it was a mirror, but also not.

I had moved functions from one file to another without changing the contents. As a result, all those lines referred to me.

And since I started thinking, I found this

[–] antimidas@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 days ago

Good link that, I'll have to add those flags to my list of aliases