> Windows used to have a version control called Visual Source Safe.
> You'd have to select files you want to modify and check out them. Then they're locked. No one else in the team can touch them.
> God forbid you forgot to check them in at the end of the day and are not at work for a week then those files are locked and don't even have your changes.
Holy shit, this is what lawyers still do--I always thought the developers who built the shitty enterprise software used by law firms knew this was garbage "version control", and wondered what they thought of it--but now you're telling me that the developers of that old dotcom era software themselves used a similar flow? for software engineering? insane
> God forbid you forgot to check them in at the end of the day and are not at work for a week then those files are locked and don't even have your changes.
Holy shit, this is what lawyers still do--I always thought the developers who built the shitty enterprise software used by law firms knew this was garbage "version control", and wondered what they thought of it--but now you're telling me that the developers of that old dotcom era software themselves used a similar flow? for software engineering? insane