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[–] Horrabin 28 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

This is probably more accurate:

-Who the fuck wrote such a shit!

-WHO???

-...

-Oh... it was me...

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Me at a previous workplace.

-This is a piece of shit, who is the code owner of this module.

  • Ah, it's me ("inheriting" code ownership when someone left was common)

  • Who did this change

  • Ah, it was me

  • Surely I just made a minor change to this line here, who wrote the function.

  • it was me, it was me all the way down

Fits the general theme of the thread as it was not giving any trouble for a year before being found.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

The more frustrated you are when running git blame the more likely the command turns out to be a mirror.

[–] Horrabin 4 points 5 hours ago

This is where the programmer's way to humbleness starts :-D

[–] ulterno 2 points 6 hours ago

Last time that happened to me, it was a mirror, but also not.

I had moved functions from one file to another without changing the contents. As a result, all those lines referred to me.

And since I started thinking, I found this