The Git Log Knows What I Did Last Summer

Some people keep journals.
I have git log --oneline.

I was looking for a bug from last August and ended up scrolling through the digital equivalent of a found-footage horror film.

f9e3b22 – ok this should work  
83b1f12 – temp fix do not judge me  
58dd201 – refactor but worse  
a1248df – idk man it compiles  

Somewhere between final_final_REALLY_FINAL and a commit that just said “rip,” I realized my entire development history could be used as evidence.
Not in court - but definitely in therapy.

Why does it always get like this?

Because when you’re building fast, git stops being a version control system and starts acting like a confession booth.

I’ve buried half-built features.
Abandoned migrations.
Renamed files out of spite.

One time I spent two hours debugging a function, only to realize I’d commented it out three days earlier with a TODO that said:
“deal with this later.”

And that’s the thing - the more chaotic the team, the messier the logs.
Not because we’re bad engineers, but because we’re trying to ship without structure.

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The lesson?

Your git history is a mirror.
If it looks cursed, maybe the system around you is too.

I’m learning to stop blaming myself for the mess -
and start questioning the process that creates it.

Or at the very least, name my commits something better than
“fuck it YOLO.”