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Old timers know (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 months ago by alphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world 27 points 4 months ago (2 children)

At my first developer job 25 years ago, any time we made a change in the code we had to add a comment at the end of each modified line with our initials and the date, because we had no version control.

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

When I graduated from university in 2020, my classmates still zipped the entire project and dated it with "final", "final(2)", and "final-forrealnow". This is extra sad, because they did this in a class, where we were taught version control. Out of the 50-something people in my lab for that class, maybe like 3 people outside of me didn't express hatred for it

[–] RichieRich@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Oh, they are experienced seniors! I saw people zipping the package with: "project-new", "project-new(1)", "copy of project-new(1)"

/sarc 🤡

[–] michel@friend.ketterle.ch 1 points 4 months ago

@dinckelman
That's a thing I never understood. Everyone knows this problem but until now ther isn't a single Filesystem for linux that support version control native.

@CoggyMcFee

[–] RichieRich@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

That‘s how I still do it today, 'cause: no version control. 🙈 I wished I could use Git. But im my customer project there isn’t any…

[–] refalo@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

there's absolutely no reason you can't use git

[–] RichieRich@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Yes, if your customers insist on storing the source files on IBM i in "QSYS.LIB" and you are not allowed to develop locally in you favorite IDE. The old "AS/400 developers" fight tooth and nail to store the source code in the in the database instead of "Integrated File System", so it's always a pain. 🤮 Fortunately there is IBM BOB which makes transfer really easy.