Git Explained: The Ryanair Edition

The emotional journey of a developer in four stages of despair: 1. Coding: "Yeah, I got this!" - Blissfully ignorant, thinking your code will work on the first try. 2. Debugging: "Wait, why is this happening?" - The slow realization that your beautiful code is actually a dumpster fire with a syntax error cherry on top. 3. Version Control: "WHO COMMITTED THIS MONSTROSITY?" - That moment you git blame only to discover it was you, three months ago. 4. DevOps: "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe..." - The thousand-yard stare of someone who's had to fix a production server at 2 AM while the CEO watches their Slack status.

That's what happens when you push untested code on Friday at 4:59 PM with a commit message "it works on my machine." The skeleton isn't a metaphor - it's literally the remains of the last developer who thought hotfixing production was a personality trait. The business calls it "moving fast and breaking things," but the on-call engineer calls it "why I drink."

OH. MY. GOD. Someone just discovered GitHub isn't the download section of Best Buy! 😱 The ABSOLUTE TRAGEDY of trying to find that precious .exe file on a platform that's LITERALLY DESIGNED for source code sharing! It's like walking into a library and having a meltdown because they don't sell hamburgers! THE HORROR! GitHub stores CODE, sweetie - you know, those magical text files developers use before they're compiled into executables? You're supposed to clone the repo or download the source and build it yourself like a grown-up developer! But sure, let's blame the "weirdest file sharing site" because clicking that big green "Code" button and understanding what a repository is would be TOO MUCH EFFORT! 💅

When your Git push gets rejected by some obscure rule you didn't know existed. The terminal's giving you ASCII art of a dragon guarding your repo like it's a medieval treasure vault! That "Herald push rule H149" might as well be written in ancient runes. Nothing says "your code isn't worthy" quite like being denied by a mythical creature made of forward slashes and zeroes. Somewhere, a senior dev is cackling while sipping coffee from their "Git Gud" mug.

Nothing strikes more fear into a developer's heart than asking for code review. The bear in the forest is just your senior dev who'd rather maul you than look at your 47 file changes with the comment "fixed stuff." The perfect survival strategy: create a PR so terrible that everyone suddenly develops selective blindness. Works on bears, tech leads, and that one architect who hasn't written actual code since Java 6.

The perfect visual metaphor for Git workflow doesn't exi— Wait, it's Ryanair! The top image shows a plane landing (git commit) - safely storing your code changes. The middle shows a plane taking off (git push) - launching your commits to the remote repository with the confidence of a budget airline pilot. But that bottom image... git add with people climbing stairs to nowhere in the desert is absolutely savage. Just like how we frantically stage random files hoping they'll somehow work together, while stranded in dependency hell. Whoever made this clearly had to debug merge conflicts at 3am before a deadline.