Lately it’s been all conferences, front-end celebrities, and very serious topics. And honestly? I’m tired…
Tired of ambitious topics - not of blogging! 😄
It’s a quiet Sunday afternoon, nothing’s happening.
So if you somehow wandered in here, enjoy this small collection of the dumbest / funniest commit messages I remember from my projects.
📝 Repeated “Fixes”™
"fix"
"fix"
"fix-final"
"ok final fix"
"fix final final"
"fixed previous fix"
This is exactly what my DevOps’ commits looked like whenever he had to “quickly install something” into the code.
Luckily he always squashed later 😂
🛐 “Did the needful”
"did the needful"
My teammate’s classic message for the pointless “do it right now” tasks the manager dropped on us. 🙏
🔧 Build-Struggle Chronicles
"attempt to fix the build"
"ok, fix the build"
Let’s be honest… there were probably more attempts 😅
🔙 “Rollback the rollback”
"rollback the rollback"
Who among us hasn’t rollbacked a rollback? 🤷♂️
⚡ Demo-Driven Development™
"quick fix before the demo, forgive me"
Peak engineering culture. Peak survival instinct. 🌪️
🙏 “please work”
"please work"
Who hasn’t written this one, hoping the code will show mercy? 🥲
😵 “too tired to explain”
"too tired to explain"
A universal Friday-at-8-PM commit message.
🫣 The Pre-ESLint Era
"added a coma, now works fine"
One comma to rule them all.
🧨 “some minor fixes”
"some minor fixes"
100 lines changed.
Zero regrets. 😇
💬 Your turn!
Do you remember similar gems from your own projects?
Share them — let’s build the ultimate Hall of Fame of Terrible Commit Messages 😎
Top comments (42)
Or my favorite is the messages when they first push something:
🤣🤣
this is me before ai lol now im just generate it with emoji
I'm guilty.
You could write a book worth of a text to express that initial commit. I should start using 'See the README.md'
No worries, we’re all guilty 😂
Honestly, ‘See the README.md’ might be the cleanest initial commit message I’ve ever heard.
If it contains enough information, it is valid. But we are not the best at documenting our code.
Agreed! Enough information is definitely the goal - but let’s be honest, documenting code isn’t exactly our strongest hobby 😅
Succinct and Accurate?! Guilty lol
If being succinct and accurate is wrong, I don’t wanna be right 😂
Hahaha yes, especially when it’s the first and the last commit in the whole repo xD
Mine were always something like
🤣🤣 I claimed the worst committer award years ago!
OMG I’m crying 😂
These are elite commit messages - especially ‘last one…’ followed by ‘and I lied’.
That’s basically the universal developer cycle 😭💛
Honestly, I think you and I could easily co-own the ‘worst committer’ trophy 😂🔥
now it is a good day 😄
I remember using a f****ng swear word in a commit message once, and only once, to find out there was an automated bot service quoting that kind of commits on social media with random images of toilets. 😲🚽🤣
HAHA no way 😂🚽
A single swear in a commit and suddenly you’re featured in ‘Toilets Weekly’ thanks to an automated bot.
That’s legendary!
😂😂
initial commitandsome minor fixesare by far my favorites… some kind of TL;DR for code.Absolutely! Those two are the ultimate TL;DR of coding 😂
And as always - love seeing your comments, Pascal!
My favorite from the repository at work...
That's it. That's the commit message.
OMG 😂 the truest expression of a dev losing an argument with their code.
I usually follow conventional commit rules, but sometimes I'll write some beautiful meaningless messages like:
I hope I won't have to spend time revisiting this commit again.
Haha I 100% feel this - we all try to follow the rules, but those ‘beautifully meaningless’ commits sneak in every now and then 😄
And yes, fingers crossed that future-you never has to debug that one again 😂
These are painfully relatable 😂
My personal favorites from past projects were:
“why does this even work??” and “I’ll fix this later” (never fixed).
Funny how commit history becomes the real documentary of a developer’s mental state. Great post!
Hahaha yes, exactly! ‘Why does this even work??’ is such a universal dev scream 😅
And ‘I’ll fix this later’… the most famous lie in our entire profession 😂
You’re so right - commit history really is a documentary of our mental state.
Thanks for the kind words! 💛
im using gitbutler and suddenly all the commit message is beautiful also really easy for newbie to git
Good to know everything is now fully compatible with the M1 architecture. I’ve been holding off on updating Dreamweaver because of extension issues, so this is really helpful. Also appreciate the heads-up about reinstalling everything for the 2021 version, saves a lot of confusion. Wappler sounds interesting too, might give it a try.
I've been there - like what more can you say "hotfix", "make it work", etc...
Recently I've been using Gitmoji recently for all my commits.
And - I actually think my commit messages are better now!
Haha totally! At some point all commits become ‘pls work’ variations 😅
And yes - Gitmoji is SUCH an upgrade. It makes everything clearer and way more fun!
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