[seadan83]

Did that work out well at all? Any silver lining? My first thought is: "branches" & "tags" - wow... Would branches/tags have just been easier to work with?

Were they working with multiple services in a multi-repo? Seems like a cross-product explosion of repos. Did that configuration inhibit releases, or was the process cumbersome but just smooth because it was so rote?

[wrs]

It was a venerable on-prem application done in classic three-tier architecture (VB.NET client, app server, and database). It was deployed on a regular basis to thousands of locations (one deploy per location) and was critical to a business with 11-digit revenue.

So yeah, cumbersome, but established, and huge downside risk to messing with the status quo. It was basically Git applied on top of an existing “copy the source” release process.