Git Day

July 21st is Git Day!

Once a year, we set aside a day for celebrating the version control that makes our lives more joyful.

What do you do on Git Day?

Some activities are fun to do with your friends:

• 🍒 Eat git themed food with a fork, obviously
• 🖍️ Decorate an octocat
• 🧑‍🏫 Teach someone how to use git!

You can also celebrate Git Day from the comfort of your own home:

• 🍴 Work on that project that you've had your eye on
• 🙏 Thank your favorite repo maintainers!
• 😊 Rename a default branch to main
• ❌ find . -name .svn -exec rm -rf {} \;
  • Just kidding, version control of any kind rocks. We respect and salute our SVN friends!

What do you eat on Git Day?

Honestly, with enough creativity you can probably make a case for any food you want being part of a Git Day feast. We recommend going for puns where possible, with traditional Git Day fare such as cherry-pick pie and pulled pork. Most foods can be bisected or rebased with a little work. Of course, you could always fall back on an old classic and git fetch some prunes.

Need some inspiration? Check out our recipes!

If you think up a good food for your own party, then you have a wonderful Git Day opportunity! Fork this repository, add your idea, and open a pull request so that we can keep the version control party rolling!

Why is Git Day July 21st?

First, we substituted numbers for each of the letters in git.

G = 7
I = 9
T = 20

(Note: this is one-indexed due to domain specific conventions in alphanumeric-cyphers common in childhood toys and super secret spy correspondence. Also because we're an XSLT/XPath shop. Also because it would be very confusing if the 7th month of the year was August).

The 7 lends itself well to "July", but since 920 does not fall within the range 1 - 31 we had to get creative.

920 % 31
  => 21

And so it was that July 21st became the home of this most majestic of holidays.