[blotter_paper]

>having been expressly forbidden from using ANY VC by the CEO

Well that's really fucking stupid of them. Maybe they're worried about evidence of old HIPAA breaches existing after the system gets updated, and doesn't want to explain that logic? On your local development station:

  mkdir repo
  cd repo
  git init --bare
  cd ..
  git clone repo project_folder
  cd project_folder
  cp -r ../<path_to_project>/project project

Congratulations, you now have version control for local development that your CEO never has to know about! The only reason I'd suggest an extra folder (horribly named project_folder in the example above) is so that you never accidentally copy the hidden .git files when moving it from your dev station.

[MichaelMoser123]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/505467/can-i-store-the-g... you dont need to copy files, just tell git to store its data in another dir

[spookyuser]

Wow thank you so much for this. There's some stuff I've been working on which I want to sync to Dropbox as I type but without the .git being synced too. Up until now I've just had to deal with the .git files being synced with Dropbox. But now it looks like I finally have a way of moving the repo!

[dotancohen]

If your bosses are concerned about Git, then they will likely have a fit over Dropbox. Get permission first, it is not worth your job.

[mdaniel]

it is not worth your job in a thread entitled "who wants to be fired"?

This entire thread discussion is filled with it's not worth it, but towards the "no one should be forced to work like that" kind of way

[lazyasciiart]

The Dropbox comment is from a different user.

[dual_basis]

Wow, that's a great idea!

[marrone12]

It likely is because of accidentally storing PII randomly in a hidden folder.

The data and application code are probably very intertwined, rather than portable code that could be plugged into any kind of stage database.