Merge Memes

Starts with a simple rebase. Then you're fixing conflicts with amend and continue. Next thing you know, you're aborting and hard resetting. Finally, you just merge the branch like a defeated circus performer who's dead inside but still has to smile for the audience. The transformation from "I know what I'm doing" to "I have no idea what's happening anymore" is complete.

Oh, the absolute chaos of Git operations gone wrong! The meme brilliantly uses airplane imagery to illustrate version control disasters: The first plane represents THE COMMIT - clean, orderly, everything as expected. The second shows THE MERGE - still mostly intact but clearly something's off (just like when you merge branches with minor conflicts). But the third image? That's the nightmare scenario - THE CHANGES TO THE CODE I FORGOT TO STAGE - a crowd of people desperately evacuating what appears to be a doomed flight. That sinking feeling when you realize your critical changes weren't included in your push because you forgot to git add them first. And this, friends, is why we don't bypass code reviews. Your teammates might have noticed those unstaged changes before they became a production emergency!

The ABSOLUTE PEAK of solo developer dignity! 💅 Creating a pull request on your own repository and then dramatically switching hats to approve it yourself is the coding equivalent of giving yourself a medal! It's that special moment when you pretend there's an actual code review happening, but it's just you having a conversation with yourself like some kind of Git schizophrenia. "Hmm, this code looks FABULOUS, darling! Who wrote it? Oh wait—IT WAS ME!" The ceremonial self-merge: simultaneously the most pathetic and most empowering ritual in solo development history!

A street sign that says "NO REBASE" with a symbol prohibiting two cars from being on top of each other. The perfect metaphor for Git workflows where rebasing is forbidden and merging is the only acceptable way to integrate changes. That senior dev who set up the repo rules is probably the same person who put up this sign. Both will fight you to the death if you try to maintain a clean commit history.

The Terminator's code review process is brutally efficient. Junior dev thinks creating a PR means they're done, but they've forgotten the most important part—getting their Tech Lead's approval. And just like the Terminator's cold delivery of bad news, there's no sugar-coating it when your TL has abandoned the project, gone on vacation, or worse... left for another company. Now your code is stuck in PR purgatory, neither alive nor dead, just waiting... forever.

The ultimate manifestation of programmer desperation: slapping a crying cat meme on your car begging for code review approvals. When your pull requests have been sitting in limbo for so long that you've resorted to vehicular advertising. That sad little "just let me merge pls" hits different when you've been waiting three days for Chad from backend to stop "getting to it later." Next level: hiring skywriters to beg senior devs to approve your commits.