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# git-blame-someone-else

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rishdang Feb 7, 2016

awesome

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image

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Bengt Feb 11, 2016

On the door stands something like "For Sale" and a telephone number. .. So I suspect the joke here is, that the telephone is not the actual owner of the garage, but some pranked friend of the author. That guy will now get calls regarding a garage he never heard of. Analogously Linus Torvalds is being talked about in this commit, while GitHub is responsible for not validating the commit authors.

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alexshpilkin Feb 2, 2018

@Bengt Your translation is correct. Also, garages for sale were so ubiquitous at some point in ex-USSR (and still are in some places) that posting “Garage for sale” in a random unrelated thread has become a running gag.

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@ArneBab

ArneBab Jul 27, 2021

while GitHub is responsible for not validating the commit authors.

There is commit sign.

But if you have an on-platform rebasing workflow, all your precious signatures fall through the cracks.

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rishabhdeepsingh Jul 27, 2021

This should be banned LUL 😆

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This should be banned LUL laughing

Oh yes, rebasing without recorded trail is a largely untold horror for tracking authorship.

(I understand that this likely isn’t what you meant, but your comment just fit too well to ignore :-) )

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likhith2003 Nov 25, 2021

odiyamma endhi ra idi

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dorianmariecom Jun 4, 2023

Dorian was there

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simoneeti Aug 2, 2023

cuide señora su gaaalliinero porque esta noche vamoo afanar una gallina para el puchero porque mañana tenemos que morfar y el domingo vamo a ver a river, a ver a river de corazon porque este año de aca de nuñez, de aca de nuñez sale el nuevo campeon


> "I love git-blame-someone-else!!" -Linus Torvalds[^linus]

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kailan Feb 7, 2016

i call hax

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@ugjka

ugjka Feb 7, 2016

Nice

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@viljamivirolainen

viljamivirolainen Feb 24, 2019

yo is that even legal?

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aaaaaa123456789 Jul 14, 2019

Just lying about something is typically illegal only in specific circumstances (e.g., fraud, defamation), plus this particular joke is explained at the bottom of the page, so it's not really a lie.

(Disclaimers: laws vary widely depending on location, so it is possible that you'll live somewhere with draconian laws regarding citation. Also, I'm not a lawyer. I'm not responsible if this comment causes your dog to start speaking backwards German.)

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@Not-AriStienfeld

Not-AriStienfeld Sep 15, 2022

LGTM

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xiaoyu2006 Feb 9, 2023

Me too Linus.

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ElBe-Plaq Oct 11, 2023

:o

## Install

```bash
Expand All @@ -19,3 +21,5 @@ $ git blame-someone-else <author> <commit>
## Disclaimer:

This changes not only who authored the commit but the listed commiter as well. It also is something I wrote as a joke, so please don't run this against your production repo and complain if this script deletes everything.

[^linus]: Linus Torvalds didn't really approve of this. It's a joke to prove it works.

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benmonro Feb 8, 2016

I feel this line is unnecessary and extraneous. Consider deleting it.

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@solidsnack

solidsnack Feb 8, 2016

It will be helpful to archeologists.

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@JimCotter

JimCotter Sep 6, 2018

And helpful to idiots who happen upon it.

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@numbermaniac

numbermaniac Apr 14, 2019

And probably to save himself from being charged for impersonation or identity theft.

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@jduthon

jduthon Apr 23, 2019

Identity theft is not a joke! Millions of families suffer every year!

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@jaredcowan-rv

jaredcowan-rv Aug 2, 2019

Identity theft is not a joke! Millions of families suffer every year!

MICHAEL!!!

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blackraspberryyy Sep 25, 2020

Identity theft is not a joke! Millions of families suffer every year!

MICHAEL!!!

Oh you think that's funny?! MICHAEL!

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alanpcs Dec 1, 2020

This commit will never die aehheaeh

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@carsnwd

carsnwd Dec 3, 2020

but does he approve tho?

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@caleb-james-smith

caleb-james-smith Apr 12, 2022

classic

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@CubeFlix

CubeFlix Nov 13, 2022

the funny thing is that the commit shows up in linus's profile lmao

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the funny thing is that the commit shows up in linus's profile lmao

unfortunately it shouldn't work now @CubeFlix

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tips fedora

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👍

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GitHub has got GPG signature verification now 😆

GitHub's Verified Commits Screenshot

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Frighten me hurriedly to configure the GPG signature 🐶

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The blog post doesn't mention it, but I don't see any way around their deciding to implement this feature right now stemming from this demo right here.

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I've just discovered this thread. I guess I'll be here for hours now..

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I found this repo through this reddit post.

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Haha I love to use GitHub as 9gag

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This would have been useful a couple times (not for evil reasons I swear), I just used git filter-branch (there's actually a GitHub help page on it IIRC).

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hi I'm jayphelps.

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I think this code shows a technology problem. So, let's work to fix it and this code will be turn into a simple joke.
I lol, but, in the real world it's a big and real problem.

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I didn't even realize how old this thread was until I read through like 3/4 of it.

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yes

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GitHub just became Reddit now?

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@VaibhavKalpe VaibhavKalpe commented on e5cfe4b Jun 21, 2020

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I was excited until I saw the dates in thread. Wow, this is 4 years old and never knew about it.

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hi

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this is gold

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GitHub just became Reddit now?

Yes

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lol

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Nearly 2021 and we're still here!

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adding my comment to be a part of history

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It was true! This thread will truly never die!

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The thread can die if you do kill -9 (the pid)

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@Msprg Msprg commented on e5cfe4b Mar 7, 2021

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Not if it's a service with Restart=always, just make sure nobody runs # poweroff

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Hellthreads in Github ticket comments. What will they think of next?

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First Github, then the world... or maybe just prod. lol

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@leetfin leetfin commented on e5cfe4b Mar 8, 2021

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Wow another GitHub Forum!

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How long should i cook an egg if i want the yolk to stay liquid?

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7.35 seconds

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Prove it.

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How long should i cook an egg if i want the yolk to stay liquid?

@Leonetienne Around 12 minutes on an electric stove or 10 Minutes on gas stove. These times are for using cold water and putting the eggs into the water from the start.

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Fake and gay

This didn't age gracefully

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entadi makeentidhi antunna

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I like how professionally people is debating about this particular commit. It's wonderful to see the FS community together.

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Keeping this secret thread alive

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cool beans

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@fritx fritx commented on e5cfe4b Sep 30, 2022

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Keeping this secret thread alive

@theabbie so I'd recommend another asshole util git-green-someone-else

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@tycrek tycrek commented on e5cfe4b Nov 16, 2022

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I can't think of anything funny to say, oh well

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Hey, at least you said something.

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this thread has been up for 6 years, let it die

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@iTrooz iTrooz commented on e5cfe4b Dec 5, 2022

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never

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Nope

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@kurbus kurbus commented on e5cfe4b Dec 6, 2022

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every time this thread lights up in my notifs i lose a year off my life
keep going

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That's as good of a reason as any other to keep it alive in perpetuity.

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To another year of blaming someone else for your commits!

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Cheers!

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I thought i was free
I now realize that freedom is simply a construct created by the reptile lizard shadow government to make us use NPM more
It's the water
It's turning the frogs gay

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NPM SUPREMACY

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I love this

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@jees47 jees47 commented on e5cfe4b Jul 28, 2023

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This is going on for 7 years 😮🎉

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7 glorious beautiful years.

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Hey folks! What's goin' on?
Has the party already started?
Am I late?
You didn't say Linus was going to be here!

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i think i made a friend mad over using his account for a test
10/10

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This is funny. I feel like this is what Linus Torvalds would probably say if he saw this.

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this needs to be built into git by default, imagine how many people could avoid being fired by using this

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There are going to be so many developers with trust issues after they discovered this tool.

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There are going to be so many developers with trust issues after they discovered this tool.

I would say that's sad, but I can use this to add typos into someone else's README commit, and that's too funny for this to be evil.

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The most important tool for humanity.

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