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The Branch Not Merged

The Branch Not Merged

Apologies to Robert Frost

Original: The Road Not Taken


Two loads diverged in a red failed build
and sorry I could not debug both
and be one bisecter, long I stared
and looked through one as far as I could
to where it forked in the history

Then pulled the other, as just as failed
and having perhaps the better code
because it was green and wanted load
Though as for that passing there
Had tested really about the same

And both that morning equally failed
In commits no CI had trod and passed
Oh, I kept the HEAD for another day!
Yet knowing how branch leads on to branch
I doubted if I should ever look back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Elseslack ages and ages hence
Two loads diverged in a red failed build, and I --
I pulled the one less tested by,
and that has made all the difference.

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