Because this is how my morning is going, I decided to commemorate it with a poem:

Edit: Title suggested by @0x56, thanks!

The Branch Not Maintained

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Two branches diverged in a project on Git,

And sorry I could not push to both

And be one designer, long I sit

And analyzed one as best as I could

Through the tangled CSS undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because the styling was basic and bare;

Though having been cloned the developer there

Had built them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

Awaiting the project’s first pull request.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted the first would ever be addressed.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two branches diverged on Git, and I—

I pulled the one less traveled by,

And now there are several merge conflicts.

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