Anton Bruckner, the patron saint of version control systems

There seems to be a saint for everything. Saint Lidwina is the patron saint of ice skaters. Saint Lawrence is the patron saint of steak chefs. Saint Apollonia is the patron saint of dentists. And so on and so forth.

But who is the patron saint of version control systems for software development, such as Git, Mercurial and Subversion?

Although Saint Isidore of Seville is the patron saint of computers and the Internet, I nominate Anton Bruckner as the patron saint of version control systems specifically.

Anton Bruckner is an Austrian composer best known for writing nine numbered symphonies that are said to be as long as the ones by Mahler and require orchestras as large.

Although he’s not officially recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church, Bruckner does check off a lot of the boxes.

For one thing, he was a devout Catholic who never married, and the sainthood committee seems to value celibacy above lots of other things. The closest he came to marriage was with a Lutheran woman who did not want to convert. I would’ve said “close enough.”

And his Symphony №9 in D minor, which he came very close to completing, he dedicated to God, and prayed to God that He grant him enough time to complete it before dying.