“Scripture for the command line soul.”
GitScrolls is a myth-tech codex — part narrative saga, part developer meditation.
It imagines a world where Linus Torvalds, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, and Marcus Aurelius are trapped in a code review flame war… …and Tuxicles is the poor junior dev just trying to merge to main.
Told across 16 sacred scrolls, it follows his exile, fall, and return — a branching path every developer knows:
- The first
git init - The fragile power of
merge - The silent shame of a failed deploy
- The wisdom earned from debugging your own sins
Scroll I: The Unbroken Line
Where Tuxicles learns that history is sacred — and not to be rewritten lightly.
- Scroll I: The Unbroken Line
Linus the Elder teaches reverence for the commit chain. - Scroll II: The Annals of Forgotten Messages
Elena reveals that commit messages are love letters to the future.
- Scroll III: Tests Are the Honest Glass
Prophet Nia shows that tests reflect character. - Scroll IV: The Schism Scrolls
The Fork-Bearer explains divergence with dignity. - Scroll V: The Ascent to Hubris
Tuxicles gains privileges — and forgets what earned them.
- Scroll VI: The Perfect Storm
Mentors ignored. Warnings unheeded. The build looms. - Scroll VII: The Wounding of Hubris
Auth breaks. Millions are exposed. Exile begins.
- Scroll VIII: The Digital Underworld
Tuxicles wanders the seven circles of dev hell. - Scroll IX: Songs of Chaos Sirens
The Trickster returns. Temptation sings. - Scroll X: Between the Monsters of Time
Deploy deadlines become titans. - Scroll XI: The Silent Commit
The fear to push returns. - Scroll XII: Before the Ancient Reviewer
She speaks in Git alone. - Scroll XIII: The Return Pull
A single PR. Everything rides on the diff.
- Scroll XIV: Commandments of the Wise
The Oracle delivers sacred laws of mentorship. - Scroll XV: The Merge of Meaning
True reconciliation is never a fast-forward. - Scroll XVI: Where Heroes Go to Die
The student becomes teacher. The cycle completes.
GitScrolls is for those who:
- See
git blameas both technical and spiritual - Believe code is memory, and memory is sacred
- Want to teach without preaching, and learn without shame
Whether you’re burned out, leveling up, or just shipping fixes at 2AM — you're not alone.
You walk a path many have wandered. These are the scrolls they left behind.
“The scrolls are sacred. They evolve with care.”
Welcomed:
- Typos, formatting, markdown fixes
- Reflections via Discussions
- Questions, scroll notes, observations
Not accepted:
- Rewrites of core scrolls
- New characters or scrolls (fork it!)
- Meme PRs (we already did those — they’re in
/blessed_meme_archive.md)
More info: CONTRIBUTING.md
Current Release:
v0.9.0-beta
Full edit status:EDITORIAL-PLAN.md
GitScrolls is alive. We're rewriting and refining it scroll-by-scroll — but leaving its soul intact.
You can follow the changelog. You can even contribute to it. But the vision remains sacred.
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May your commits be atomic.
May your diffs be clean.
May your scrolls survive the merge.
— The Scrollkeeper