I know #github is bad this week but I still remember the horrors that came before...
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I know #github is bad this week but I still remember the horrors that came before...
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I know #github is bad this week but I still remember the horrors that came before...
@bazzargh I liked SourceSafe. Okay, the implementation was awful, and I don't remember it very well, and I liked everything else I used more, but...
Gonna stop before I talk myself out of my own opinion.
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@bazzargh I liked SourceSafe. Okay, the implementation was awful, and I don't remember it very well, and I liked everything else I used more, but...
Gonna stop before I talk myself out of my own opinion.
@tursilion the place I used it, you connected to vss on a samba share. It hopelessly unreliable networked like that and we'd lose hours each week to files being left in a locked state. It was also paaaaainfully slow[1] (but then so were the other solutions of the era like subversion). I remember trying out git not long after it came out and I ran the commands a few times to believe they'd actually done anything, they were so quick.
Tho my one contribution to git was a dry-run flag on push because its cli was always intimidating https://github.com/git/git/commit/11f2441f05ace25f1dae833a804761f1ca7d5cbb
[1] yes, github has brought back these memories
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@tursilion the place I used it, you connected to vss on a samba share. It hopelessly unreliable networked like that and we'd lose hours each week to files being left in a locked state. It was also paaaaainfully slow[1] (but then so were the other solutions of the era like subversion). I remember trying out git not long after it came out and I ran the commands a few times to believe they'd actually done anything, they were so quick.
Tho my one contribution to git was a dry-run flag on push because its cli was always intimidating https://github.com/git/git/commit/11f2441f05ace25f1dae833a804761f1ca7d5cbb
[1] yes, github has brought back these memories
@bazzargh Ahhh, yeah. I remember the samba/vss nightmares too. The company I was at switched to Perforce when the team got so large that VSS was guaranteed to fail every few hours... quite liked that one.
But then git was so dumb and easy, even I fell for it. I'm less impressed at the efforts to make it less dumb and less easy, but I'm old bitter.
Thanks for your contribution to it though!
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I know #github is bad this week but I still remember the horrors that came before...
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