@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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