Some people dream about falling off buildings or showing up late to exams.
Developers? We dream about losing the one thing that holds our release process together: the commit ID.
I track everything through JIRA.
I note every commit ID neatly on a Confluence page.
It’s how I keep deployments clean as code moves through DEV, SQE, PPR, and finally PROD.
At least… that’s what I thought I did.
The Dream
In this dream, we were preparing for a release.
I opened my Confluence page to update the next deployment batch.
Ticket ID? Present.
Description? Present.
Environment path? Present.
Commit ID?
Gone
And not just missing—completely vanished from Git like it never existed.
I scrolled.
I panicked.
I ran git log.
Every commit message looked useless.
None of them seemed tied to my JIRA ticket.
None of them looked familiar.
In the dream, people were asking:
“Which change are we promoting to SQE?”
“Are we sure this is the right commit for PPR?”
“Why doesn’t the commit match the ticket?”
And there I was, desperately diving into diffs trying to reconstruct what I had done, hoping to find the right commit before the release window closed.
The entire pipeline felt like a tower of Jenga blocks one pull away from collapsing.
Then I woke up.
Heart racing.
Sweating.
And suddenly very grateful for reality.
The Morning After
The first thing I did wasn’t brush my teeth - I opened my laptop.
I checked my Confluence page.
Everything was there.
Every commit ID was documented.
Every environment had a clean trail of changes.
But the dream was a warning.
I realized how fragile the entire chain is when one commit ID goes missing.
A single moment of laziness can ripple into hours of rework, debugging, questioning, and delays across multiple environments.
So I made myself a quiet promise over breakfast.
The New Habit
Since that dream, I’ve become religious about commit tracking:
- No more vague commit messages.
- No more “I’ll update Confluence later.”
- No more assuming I’ll “remember it anyway.”
- Every JIRA ticket gets its commit ID documented immediately.
- Every environment promotion gets logged with care.
This small discipline saves future frustration.
It protects deployments.
It keeps the pipeline predictable.
And, frankly, it lets me sleep better.
Because nightmares about lost commit IDs?
Once is enough!!
😎