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When you look at code you wrote last year
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This is probably more accurate:
-Who the fuck wrote such a shit!
-WHO???
-...
-Oh... it was me...
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.
The more frustrated you are when running
git blamethe more likely the command turns out to be a mirror.This is where the programmer's way to humbleness starts :-D
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
Good link that, I'll have to add those flags to my list of aliases