DEVELOPMENT: Survey finds 61% of the company's commits are named 'fix'
The statistic was obtained by a ten-line script. The script was never reviewed and has no tests either, but the number went over well in the meeting.
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notice: This is satire. Names, companies and telemetry are invented. Any resemblance to your environment is your problem.
An informal survey conducted by a developer during lunch break found that 61% of commit messages over the last twelve months consist of the word "fix," sometimes followed by a period.
Second place, at 14%, is "adjustments." Third is "wip," a category that covers exclusively Friday commits at 6:40 p.m.
"I just wanted to know who had touched that file," explained the script's author. "I found out it was me, fifteen times, and that not once did I explain what it was."
Asked for comment, the platform team said it has followed a message standard since 2023, whose document sits in a repository nobody has cloned for two years.
The developer said he will start writing better messages as of next Monday. The commit for the fix is called "fix."
Satire based on an invented datapoint and real behavior. Run git log --oneline | head -20 and cry with me.