r/ProgrammerHumor • • 16h ago

Meme lostTheMergeRace

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u/Genkics 16h ago

When you want to go in weekend but Jenkins decide otherwise

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u/NougatSilverEmo 16h ago

The real race isn't who finishes the feature first, it's who can hit merge before somebody else invalidates twenty minutes of testing

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u/rabbit_wizard 16h ago

Yep. Happy Friday folks!

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u/barbermario 13h ago

Jenkins has a sixth sense for Friday at 4:55 and suddenly that one flaky test fails for the first time in three months

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u/apnorton 15h ago

Just git push --force, deploy to prod at 4:59pm, and enjoy your weekend.

Follow for more tips on how to make your coworkers love you.

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u/rabbit_wizard 15h ago

Yep I'm sure to earn employee of the month

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u/AskPositive9792 16h ago

That's how you punish someone who commits on Friday

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u/raddaya 16h ago

Nothing wrong with committing to the lower branches tbh

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u/nickcash 15h ago

Nothing wrong with committing to main. Just don't do a Friday release. that's madness

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u/manav907 8h ago

I think the problem is the friday release

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u/bobdoily 16h ago

Revert there's instead of rebasing to assert dominance!

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u/rabbit_wizard 16h ago

If I could I would XD

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u/oldsecondhand 15h ago

only ffwd commits allowed

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u/InSearchOfTyrael 16h ago

you guys retest things?

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u/Forward_Yam_4013 16h ago

Before 6 PM, yes. After that you just eyeball it and if it looks good you click merge.

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u/the_poope 16h ago

And after 6 PM and three beers at the Friday bar you skip the eyeballing and just click merge

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u/Bubbaluke 15h ago

We physically can’t merge until the tests pass. Fortunately it’s all automated on push and they only take like 20 minutes.

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u/Suspicious_State_318 15h ago

Wait your CI takes 20 minutes? Are you running integration tests too? For us we only run unit and contract tests and then have bugbot run on every push.

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u/Bubbaluke 13h ago

Small codebase, it’s like ~800 unit tests and some linters. Functional tests get started by hand because they have to run on specific hardware with serial connections, etc. those still don’t take long.

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u/rabbit_wizard 16h ago

Places where one branch changes behavior affecting others yep. Sometimes unit/integration tests are enough based on the PR

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u/Apprehensive-Lychee2 14h ago

You guys use Rebase??

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u/NamityName 8h ago

Yes. It is safer as the resulting merge is a simple fast forward and not a 3-way merge

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u/Apprehensive-Lychee2 7h ago

Can you actually explain that a little more, I have never has a situation occur where rebase was preferred. 

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u/NamityName 5h ago

The normal merge is called a 3-way merge. It compares 3 commits to determine what the new commit will look like: the HEAD of the branch being merged, the HEAD if the branch being merged into, and the common ancestor. The end result is a commit that does not necessarily match either of the two branch heads.

However, if the common ancestor of the feature branch being merged is the HEAD of the branch being merged into, Git does a fast forward merge instead of a 3-way merge. It will simply move the base branch's HEAD to the HEAD of the branch being merged. The base branch will exactly match the feature branch, guaranteed. No questions. No funny business. No side effects. The code you reviewed in the feature branch will be the code after the merge.

Getting back to rebasing. A rebase will move the branch being rebased and all of its commits going back to the common ancestor to the HEAD of the base branch. The rebase process will resolve any conflicts. Then, when you merge, git will do a fast forward merge instead of a 3-way merge.

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u/__Invisible__ 5h ago

only fast forward allowed, so we rebase master on our branch and merge again.

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u/5up3rj 10h ago

My boss loves rebase. Only wants rebase

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u/BananafestDestiny 9h ago

All my homies hate merge bubbles.

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u/RandolphCarter2112 16h ago

Or your code gets rolled back from production because it was in the same release as another unrelated change that was bad and wrong and needed to be backed out.

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u/Afraid-Atmosphere747 16h ago

Testing?? Why do you do that when customers can do that.

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u/dontletthestankout 16h ago

Who pushes on a Friday? That's always a bad idea

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u/Soccer_Vader 15h ago

The goal isn't to not push anything on Friday, the goal is to not deploy anything to prod on Friday. Who tf is not pushing and testing anything in pre-prod for one whole day lol.

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u/Demiu 12h ago

Push on friday to get caught by the big test suite on weekend.

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u/xaomaw 16h ago

Yeah, never Push on friday.

Instead, push on thursday and deploy on friday.

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u/PM_ME_FIREFLY_QUOTES 16h ago

Why not? I dont work on the weekends. If the release crashes, I dont want to be anywhere near that dumpster fire.

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u/Meloetta 13h ago

If you release on a Friday, someday that "I don't work on the weekends" won't be true anymore.

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u/dontletthestankout 16h ago

You son of a...

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u/Koppany99 16h ago

Depends on the exact environment. For us we have dev and prod workspace, so pushing to dev should not affect any productipn stuff, if it does, the fault is on someone connecting prod stuff to dev stuff.

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u/rabbit_wizard 16h ago

Week starts off with a release to production

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u/PhantomTissue 15h ago

Me and my team who’s PR requirements is 15 a week. If it breaks prod, great, more PRs.

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u/Kevadu 15h ago

You have a PR requirement?!

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u/PhantomTissue 15h ago edited 15h ago

Yep. Testing? Doesn’t happen. Reviewing? Doesn’t happen. Designs? Doesn’t happen. Had a team meeting yesterday where we considered standing up a bullshit package to commit literally anything to just to hit this absurd requirement. People are making changes to agent.md and readme files with “revised for clarity” daily. It’s so bad that Ops joke is literally an hourly occurrence. Most PRs are merged within 1-2 minutes.

In fact, a lot of the team actually pushes code they know will break the pipeline because a bugfix means another PR. Management of this team has become a satire come to life.

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u/Kevadu 14h ago

Sounds like a disaster on every level. Who came up with this policy?

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u/PhantomTissue 14h ago

Organization director. So my managers managers manager. It is exactly as disastrous as you think it is and then some.

I’m applying to literally everything and anything right now because I’m watching this org crumble in real time.

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u/DisheveledJesus 5h ago

This is ezpz just make every shippable unit of change its own PR. Granular iteration!

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u/HRApprovedUsername 13h ago

To a repo? Why wouldn’t you?

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u/dontletthestankout 13h ago

I mean as long as there is no pipeline attached to said push it's fine but where I've worked push was synonymous with deploy

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u/HRApprovedUsername 12h ago

To prod? Not just straight to a dev/test ring? Thats crazy

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u/renome 9h ago

People do be crazy. And devs do be people. Mostly.

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u/GenericFatGuy 11h ago

I'll push to the personal branch I'm working on. I'm not pushing to main until the coding is done.

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u/collabskus 12h ago

You talk about Friday... My releases to production are always on a Saturday 😅

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u/jy3n2 16h ago

When it's Monday, two PRs were approved and merged but turned out to be incompatible with each other, and now Jenkins is failing everyone:

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u/Glass-Crafty-9460 15h ago

That's a monday job

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u/frikilinux2 15h ago

And your boss wants it now because it's end of Sprint and metrics get weird if you don't

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u/FGaBoX_ 13h ago

meme ❌ reality ✅

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u/The_Mawheel6321 12h ago

Today in a nutshell

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u/IAmWeary 15h ago

The best way to rebase is to use merge instead.

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u/dlm2137 14h ago

Seriously tho, it seems like merge queues are the solution to this. I’ve been thinking of trying them out, has anyone had a good experience with them?

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u/clauEB 9h ago

This is the point of AI

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u/AnUninterestingEvent 9h ago

Seriously lol. "Rebase and fix issues and re-test it". Done

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u/bbkane_ 8h ago

I've done it twice today!

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u/nicuramar 9h ago

Why? Don’t people have pipelines that automatically do this in the PR? In my experience there is rarely a need to rebase manually.

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u/Still_Bit_7527 8h ago

No we don't, never seen that

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u/Poat540 8h ago

Why rebase just git merge the main branch in

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u/LogrisTheBard 2h ago

This is the way.

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u/nicuramar 1h ago

If you end up with a squash, sure. But for complex situations, definitely. Much simpler to conflict resolve in many situations.

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u/Magnuscaligo 7h ago

I think this is even describing those automated pipelines. You might need to manually restart them, but you still have ti watch it and wait for it to merge without issue, so mentally you might need to keep it in the back of your mind for a few hours instead of relaxing on a Friday

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u/EvaristeGalois11 7h ago

Rebease and turn on auto merge? Failing pipeline will notify you by email or by slack

At least this is the setup I pretty much always worked with

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u/rix0r 6h ago

what if their are conflicts?

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u/nicuramar 1h ago

Yes, so you can take my comment to mean “in my experience there are rarely conflicts” :)

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u/SableGriis 16h ago

Monday problem now

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u/Treechcer 16h ago

Just never test it, nor rebate it... Hope the reviewer does it by himself.

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u/k8s-problem-solved 16h ago

Been working on a native app pipeline today. 20000 tests across emulators etc, 10gb build artifacts. No TLC for pipeline for a while and now takes 1 hour to run.

Super busy with commits as well. Miss the gap, thats another 1 hour for you

Oh 1 or 2 flaky tests in there as well. 19998 of 20000 tests pass. Fuxk you lol

I am making it better

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u/jolharg 15h ago

Gotta hate it

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u/MapNo2659 14h ago

I feel this on a spiritual level. Merging conflicts always seem to pop up at the worst possible time. Anyone else have a horror story about a merge gone wrong?

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u/Spacer3pt0r 14h ago

I ma shocked so many people don't use claude to rebase stuff nowadays. It is the one task that i have never had it mess up and i do it a lot.

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u/DogmaticParadigm87 14h ago

Somebody always merges a one-line typo fix the second the approval lands. Same person every time, too.

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u/HRApprovedUsername 13h ago

Why would you rebase? Do people still do that

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u/a_aniq 10h ago

I always set up branch protection rules. One of the reasons is to prevent this from happening. No one is pushing code directly to production branch directly on my watch.

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u/NibblesIndexus 10h ago

This is why we defer testing to the merge queue, no such problems and no dozen test runs for a pr. The savings pay for bigger test runners so we're done testing faster also. Big happy

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u/flakusha 10h ago

maintainingLinearHistoryHuh(?)

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u/maggos 9h ago

We have a repo where unit tests take 3 hours so people just skip the tests and merge

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u/LegitimatePants 3h ago

And due to the rebase, it sees new commits pushed and resets your approvals

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u/El_RoviSoft 3h ago

life is much easier when you work in a proper monorepo

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u/jzrobot 16h ago

Like the time I entered a PR, then someone else did one for the same issue, and theirs got approved first :)

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u/PuzzleMeDo 15m ago

Your PRs are rebased. Mine are based. We are not the same.