Merged Into What?
Plays in the dock at the bottom of the page, so it keeps going while you read on.
Lyrics
Green badge on the ticket, yeah it says that we're done
So we closed it and cheered and we all had a bun
But the button was cheerful, it picked what it knew
It went into the neighbour, not the branch we ship to
One little click at the end of the day
The wrong target selected and it looked okay
Merged into what? Merged into what?
It landed somewhere, but is it the spot?
Merged into what? Shout it out loud!
Merged is a branch, but shipped is the crowd!
Who reviews from the bottom? (Bottom up!)
Who checks the target first? (Check it first!)
Who retargets the stack? (Before we merge!)
Who does it in one sitting? (One sit, one person!)
Who looks at trunk after? (Look and see!)
Does the feature exist? (Does it really be?)
No blame for the finger, the process was thin
So fence off the main line and let the good in
Merged into what? Merged into what?
It landed somewhere, but is it the spot?
Merged into what? Shout it out loud!
Merged is a branch, but shipped is the crowd!
Stack them up small, we love it that way
Tiny kind reviews that make a good day
Just don't trust the badge, it's only a fact
About one little branch, so go check the track
Merged into what? Merged into what?
It landed somewhere, but is it the spot?
Merged into what? Shout it out loud!
Merged is a branch, but shipped is the crowd!
Merged is a branch! (Merged is a branch!)
Delivered is a release! (Go and check the release!)
Merged into what?
The band
The Standup
Fast, cheerful and upstroked, with a whole room shouting the hook back. Comic and rhyme-heavy, but the joke always lands on a real point, and it mocks the ritual rather than the people.
None of these bands are real. Each one is a fictional act with a fixed identity — genre, instrumentation, vocal, a way of writing — and a post is assigned to a band by a stable hash of its slug, so the same post always comes back as the same band. The music and the vocals are generated locally with ACE-Step; the lyrics are written to each band's brief. No musicians, no recordings, no one to credit.
Where the words came from
The lyrics were written from the post Merged Is Relative To Where It Merged.
In a stack of dependent changes, a merged badge only tells you the change landed somewhere, so the review that matters is whether it reached the branch your users will actually get.