What does /prog/ think of revision control, and what are its favorite and least-favorite revision control systems?
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Anonymous2008-08-24 23:29
a) It's a good idea in theory
b) cvs sucks, ClearCase is typical IBM overengineered bullshite, git seems OK but I've only used it a bit. Don't know much about svn.
>>5
IHBU1T. For a second I imagined coders swapping disks with eachother and passing the afternoon in 'merger hell'...
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Anonymous2008-08-25 15:19
I use svn for everything. Version control is awesome shit when you develop on 4 machines and have even more production machines because it's fucking easy to script automatic testing and deployment tasks.
Not to mention that none of my development machines have RAID'd storage, so putting it in a svn repository sitting on RAID-1 and mirrored nightly to an external backup makes me all warm inside when my HDDs die (too much porn).
We still use CVS, simply because we haven't been arsed to flip over to something newer like git. Yeah, moving/renaming files and directories suck, but it works.
Also, Perforce eats shit-dipped turds. That motherfucker ate repositories constantly, and generally fucked up and crashed all the time. I can't believe they charge for that heap of bullshit. Some of the tools look pretty, though.
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Anonymous2008-08-25 17:59
Monotone is where git stole all its good ideas.
You CVS users should just stick with SVN, though.
>>8 Too much porn that I've watched too many times to be as fun as new stuff which could be using the same space.
git (and hg, for that matter) both seem interesting from an academic standpoint, but when I used them they were both slow as fuck so I ended that experiment pretty quickly and went back to svn. Perforce can scream in hell for eternity.
>>36
If you're a faggot or a twelve-year-old (read: faggot).
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Anonymous2008-08-26 10:17
>>36
Wrong. They were called Green Harolds. Because Harold was the first one to program, or faledikyn as we called it back then, a program. So, in essence, you would say: Sam is faledikyn a Green Harold.