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My first git push broke the entire team's codebase for a solid 2 hours
I was so proud of myself for finally figuring out branches that I accidentally merged my local 'test' branch straight into main instead of a feature branch. Three senior devs had to revert everything while I sat there sweating, and now I triple check every single command before hitting enter. Has anyone else had a rookie mistake that made the whole team groan?
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bettymurphy1mo ago
Oh man, "broke the entire team's codebase" hits way too close to home. I once pushed a massive untracked node_modules folder to our shared repo and it took hours for everyone to pull without their systems crashing. I still have nightmares about that Slack notification ping going off.
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juliaa251mo ago
My buddy Dave once checked in a .gitignore file without the "node_modules" line and his whole team's build pipeline went down for an afternoon. Their CI server just kept crashing every time someone pushed. Did they ever track down who brought the donuts that day to apologize?
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