Merge Party

Noun · Slang & Abbreviations

Definitions

  1. A joking term for a burst of many merges landing close together, often with mixed feelings of celebration and dread. In engineering slang, merge parties are fun until the combined blast radius starts to show up.

    In plain English: A rush of many merges landing around the same time.

    Example: "Friday afternoon turned into a merge party, and by evening the team was already sorting out which of the fresh regressions belonged to which supposedly independent diff."

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