• Victor
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    356 months ago

    Why would they do that? Talk about generating mistrust.

        • @[email protected]
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          166 months ago

          By not understanding how version control works. I’ve worked at places that had a surprising number of developers who would just merge things in ways that drop code from other developers.

            • @[email protected]
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              96 months ago

              It’s pretty straightforward. Merge conflicts? No such thing! Just make my version the next version.

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                26 months ago

                Also that’s likely a team that doesn’t use a branching workflow, has poor review on merges, and/or using Git like it’s SVN.

                • @[email protected]
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                  26 months ago

                  How optimistic. At my last workplace I got us to finally stop using zip files for version control. This was at a fortune 500 company.

                  The utility of software is so great that even terrible processes are still functional to some degree.

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                    26 months ago

                    A times B times C equals X. If X is more than the cost of a failure or security breach, we don’t fix the software.

                    Are there a lot of these kinds of problems?

                    You wouldn’t believe.

                    Which Fortune 500 company do you work for?

                    A major one.