Version Control Humour

Introduction

This page lists some version control humour that we ran into throughout the years.

The List

• Shlomi Fish's "Subversion" Fortune Cookies.

• queen.borg.ch's Subversion IRC fortune cookies

• Ben Collins-Sussman's "Git man, man git"

• Altreus’s Mercurial Rage Comics (Local mirror)

• Mercurial vs. Git

• xkcd: Git

• xkcd: Git Commit

• Should I use BitKeeper or GitHub?

• Fine Literature (about svn.php.net)

More Advanced than CVS

On Sunday 01 April 2007, chromatic wrote:
> On Saturday 31 March 2007 15:26, Yuval Kogman wrote:
> > uses_version_control sounds more like lacks_manifest_skip_file which
> > should deduct kwalitee IMHO.
>
> Maybe so, but how else can CPANTS detect that you use the world's most

> advanced version control system: CVS?
>

Are you kidding?

CVS is not as advanced as:

1. Microsoft Visual SourceSafe - the only sane choice for good data integrity
and portability.

2. tarballs/zip-files and patches. This one excels in convenience, and
robustness.

CVS is a very advanced version control system, however. I do wish that
Subversion (which is a VCS that I have to use against my will) was as good as
it is.

    -- Shlomi Fish answering to chromatic on 01-April-2007

Chuck Norris and Git

When Chuck Norris uses git, he takes a coffee break after initiating every git commit. And then he waits for the commit to finish.

-- Context