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Nonsense, you didn't even have CVS in the 80's.


Maybe not, but I'd take pass-the-floppy over AccuRev or Perforce any day.

Yeah, git and its kin are really nice, but the expensive version control systems I've been required to use in enterprise settings are awful. So awful that many people actually just email source files back and forth so they don't have to deal with it.

So, version control has made things better in some areas. But enterprise version control feels more like a step back to me. AccuRev has literally stolen entire mornings from me because what should have been a simple two-minute check-in took almost 3 hours to complete and was interactive! Yay!


That's a shame. All the enterprise places I've worked so far have used Subversion (whether officially or not).


Hence the name.




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