Commit Logs From Last Night

[kevinpet]

I think there's a reason most humor websites have some sort of curation process.

[vhf]

Yep. The idea is potentially fun, though. They could surely make use of a curation process. Something like bash.org, maybe ?

[dleibovic]

So it just watches github's live feed for commit messages that contain a curse word.

[sprobertson]

Specifically, https://github.com/astanway/Commit-Logs-From-Last-Night/blob...

[bdcravens]

I use a little obscene language myself, but there's nothing cool or enlightening about it. Any site built around it is at best noisy, but more like puking all over the screen.

[duiker101]

Well I'm glad to see that also other people have this sorts of messages in their commit history

[ams6110]

Interesting to me too. While I'm not above putting the occasional gripe into a commit message, I don't think I've ever used profanity. I prefer commit log messages to be useful later, to myself if not others. So I try to avoid useless messages like "Fixing stuff" (with or without expletives).

[aberkowitz]

I'm baffled by this admiration of commit messages that do nothing to explain the code committed.

[stillinbeta]

Some of the stuff in there is pretty spectacular, like this qt-brainfuck: https://github.com/sea-kg/seakgChrysocyonParser/compare/0988...

[jrabone]

Hmm, another triumph for the "Github will get you hired" crowd. And so soon after the "Github will get you kicked off Coursera" debacle.

Actually this is a good use case for DVCS - at least you have a second chance to clean up your commit messages when pushing from a private repo. It does have to be private though. I would be interested to see if BitBucket gets a boost in users this month...

[moondowner]

So fuck and shit are the most common words used as I can see. Not what I expected.

[zackzackzack]

I imagine this is just going through a stream of commits and only picking out the ones containing fuck and shit.

[zwass]

Before bashing, please notice the subheading: "because real hackers pivot two hours before their demo". This was Abe's pivot right before the deadline at the PennApps Hackathon.

[bdcravens]

Obviously this is on open source stuff, but I'd don't think it'd reflect positively with a prospective client or employer.

[zerostar07]

Not many swearing ladies.