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by cubano 685 days ago
You wouldn't believe the amount of crap I take whenever I introduce very basic version control at the various 3 to 6 man shops I find work at these days.

I'm 100% sure that once I left that the devs went back to remote server crash and burn FTP development...they couldn't be bothered with the "hassle" and unneeded headaches of git.
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throw0101c 685 days ago
> I'm 100% sure that once I left that the devs went back to remote server crash and burn FTP development...they couldn't be bothered with the "hassle" and unneeded headaches of git.

Have you considered introducing Mercurial or even Subversion?

While Git may be a kind of an industry 'standard', if you're starting from zero, some of its concepts may be a bit mind-bending for folks, and it has often been commented that Hg seems to have a more beginner-friendly interface.

And if branching isn't going to be used (a large strength of git/hg), then Subversion may have an even simpler mental model (svn of course does branching, but the others are more optimized for it).

If folks are doing FTP-push deployment, then moving to 'just' SVN-push (commit) deployment can be an improvement.

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ahazred8ta 683 days ago
There was a new hire who was told to make a small change in a piece of server software, found the repo, read the docs, made the change, ran it in testing, and pushed to prod. Cue the 'senior engineer' screaming bloody blue murder because he'd been directly monkeypatching the servers for 3 years with no vc and no backups.
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Calamitous 673 days ago
That’s… not a senior engineer. Whatever his title may have been.
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wink 685 days ago
This could have been written and 2014 and 2004 (hi, it's me). There will always be people who don't use it and others who won't remember a time when they hadn't used it :P
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pasc1878 685 days ago
Add 1984 to that list of dates. We used PVCS on MSDOS

By 1994 I had moved to other companies and a NeXT equivalent to svn with a good GUI - and then ClearCase.

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buddhu 683 days ago
Hello, fellow old person. I was just remembering PVCS (Polytron Version Control System) since it was the first I worked with back in the 80s. Now I see that it's still out there, with the latest release in 2021. Which is insane.
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