• Transtronaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        3 months ago

        I never understood the SVN hate. Then, as now, the problems are almost never caused by the tools, and almost always caused by the people misusing them.

        • gamer@lemm.ee
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          3 months ago

          I never got around to using anything except git, partly because of all the hate people would throw at the other competitors back in the day. Even if the criticisms were not fair, and even if it was all a secret conspiracy to kill git competitors, it definitely worked out for the best. Imagine the hell we’d be in today if we had to constantly deal with different VCS solutions.

  • Lucy :3@feddit.org
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    4 months ago

    “Developer”
    “my” 4 months of “work”

    Those are the ones easily replaced by AI. 99% of stuff “they” did was done by AI anyway!

  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
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    4 months ago

    You need a USB C “Power Ctrl+Z” key. Unlike the regular Ctrl+Z key one of these bad boys is capable of reversing edits across system reboots until as far back as when you originally plugged it in.

  • simonced@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Letting your text editor write your code, not using version control… I don’t feel sad at all. Hope lesson was learned.

  • zovits@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    It’s actually reassuring to see that despite all warnings and doomsayers there will still be opportunities for programmers capable of solving problems using natural intelligence.

    • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      If anything it feels like we’re the doomsayers trying to warn people that their AI bullshit won’t ever work and they’re just not listening as they lay off the masses and push insecure and faulty code.

  • dan@upvote.au
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    4 months ago

    Before Git, we used SVN (Subversion), and CVS before that. Microsoft shops used TFS or whatever it’s called now (or was called in the past)

    • The_Decryptor@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      4 months ago

      A place I worked at did it by duplicating and modifying a function, then commenting out the existing one. The dev would leave their name and date each time, because they never deleted the old commented out functions of course, history is important.

      They’d also copy the source tree around on burnt CDs, so good luck finding out who had the latest copy at any one point (Hint: It was always the lead dev, because they wouldn’t share their code, so “merging to main” involved giving them a copy of your source tree on a burnt disk)

    • i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca
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      4 months ago

      Wasn’t it Visual SourceSafe or something like that?

      God, what a revolution it was when subversion came along and we didn’t have to take turns checking out a file to have exclusive write access.

      • HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth
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        4 months ago

        Yeah VSS was the predecessor to TFS, and now TFS is called Azure DevOps… whatever the fuck that means, Microsoft needs to get it together with product naming. Anyway TFS sucks major rotten ass. I have my problems with git - namely user friendliness - but TortoiseGit has put all those troubles to rest.

        Nothing like that can fix TFS.

        • Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          4 months ago

          I started at a company that uses ADO (migrating to GitHub this year) and it took me like 20 minutes to figure out how to change repositories in the UI… idk how they built something that unuser friendly

          • HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth
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            4 months ago

            I could go all day with my grievances… For some fucking reason, Team Foundation Server thought it would be a good idea to model their source control on folders and files rather than atomic nodes of changes like git.

            I’m sure someone thought this was intuitive, but it falls apart once you realize you can check in cross-branch or even cross-project files into a single changeset. This allows you to easily pollute projects you’re working on but didn’t intend to modify yet, if you forgot to exclude their files. And then, when your code reviewer checks the history of the project folder you modified, they don’t even notice all the files you changed that WEREN’T in that folder but were part of the same changeset. So you pass your review, and all the sudden there’s unwanted, unnoticed, and untested changes in some other project, with a nice code review stamp on them!

            And the entire checkout/checkin system is just flipping the read-only flag on the files in file explorer. It’s the most amateurish shit. If you edit a file in an open, active project, the file gets checked out automatically. But if you’re editing loose scripts that aren’t part of a bespoke SLN or CSPROJ, you have to check those out manually… which it will only tell you to do once you try to save the file.

            And then Visual Studio cannot understand that I might need to switch regularly between 2 types of version control systems. If you’re not on the same VCS plugin when you want to open a recent project on it, it doesn’t automatically switch it for you, it just refuses to load the project. The only way to reliably to switch is by going into the options menu, changing it there, THEN loading the project.

            git is practically made of grease compared to how stuttery and clunky TFS is. I’ll shed no tears for the fossils who are having a hard time learning git, they will be better off whether they realize it or not.

      • dan@upvote.au
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        4 months ago

        Visual SourceSafe

        Yes! That’s the one I was struggling to remember the name of. My previous employer started on Visual SourceSafe in the 90s and migrated to Team Foundation Server (TFS) in the 2000s. There were still remnants of SourceSafe when I worked there (2010 to 2013).

        I remember TFS had locks for binary files. There was one time we had to figure out how to remove locks held by an ex-employee - they were doing a big branch merge when they left the company, and left all the files locked. It didn’t automatically drop the locks when their account was deleted.

        They had a bunch of VB6 COM components last modified in 1999 that I’m 80% sure are still in prod today. It was still working and Microsoft were still supporting VB6 and Classic ASP, so there wasn’t a big rush to rewrite it.

        • HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth
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          4 months ago

          Welcome to my world… our new lead architect has mandated that we move everything from TFS to GitLab before the end of the year. I hope it comes true.

          • Flames5123@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            3 months ago

            At the start of COVID, I migrated our three projects to git from VSS. I also wrote a doc for our other teams to do the same. It was amazing once we got it working. Small team of 3, but we started using feature branches which enabled us to easily merge everything into a testing branch and release only certain features at a time. So much cleaner.

            Before I left, I almost got semi automatic CI/CD working with Jenkins!

          • nogooduser@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            4 months ago

            I remember when our company split up and we had to give them the source code of some older versions that they still used. We couldn’t do that because the repo was corrupt meaning that we couldn’t access some older revisions. We had no problems using it day to day so nobody noticed which meant that all backups were also corrupted.

      • JakenVeina@lemm.eeEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Thank god, we STILL use TFS at work, and its core version control model is reeeeeally fucking awful.

    • GhostlyPixel@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      My first SWE job out of college in 2019 they were still using SVN because none of the seniors could be bothered to learn how to use git.

      The “well this is how we’ve always done it” attitude had a death grip on that place

      • dan@upvote.au
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        4 months ago

        For what it’s worth, SVN is a much simpler object model compared to Git, which makes it easier to understand.

        It’s centralized rather than distributed like Git is, which has some disadvantages. Most operations require access to the server, as opposed to Git where you usually have a copy of the entire repo and can work offline. Users can clone the repo from other users rather than relying on a centralized server.

        On the other hand, a centralized server also simplifies some things. For example, instead of commit hashes, SVN has revision numbers, which are natural numbers that start at 1 and are incremented for every commit. A lot of software that used SVN used to use the revision number as part of the version or build number.

        Git is definitely the source control system to choose today, but SVN can still have its place.

    • ByteJunk@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Oh yeah, I remember using tortoiseCVS briefly.

      Mercurial and Bazaar also showed up at around the same time as git, I think all spurred by BitKeeper ending their free licenses for Linux kernel devs.

      An interesting shot to the foot, that one.

      BitKeeper was a proprietary version control system that somehow (and with a lot of controversy) ended up being adopted by a big chunk of the Linux kernel developers, while others were adamant against it.

      In any case, they provided free licenses to Linux devs, with some feature restrictions (including not being able to see full version history) only available for premium clients, while Devs who worked on open source competing systems were even barred from buying a licence.

      When someone started to work on a client that allowed access to these locked away features, they revoked the free licenses, and a host of solutions started being developed immediately. Linus Thorvalds himself started work on git, and that eventually got adopted by the whole Linux ecosystem and, nowadays, the world.

      As for BitKeeper, it’s been dead for years now.