Don’t trust anyone who can’t spell ‘oops’.
Just a heads up, it you don’t know how to use cli git in 2025 you’re probably a shit developer. There are undoubtedly exceptions, but I would argue not knowing version control intimately makes you a bad developer.
Why learn an archaic and honestly horrifying command line interface, possibly the worst CLI ever made in the history of computing…when nice normal graphical interfaces work better, have discoverability, have troubleshooting tools, and don’t require memorizing scripture?
I need to put a SaaS together called vibe VCS
Fake developer doesn’t use version control. Big surprise.
Acts like SVN and CVS didn’t exist
Also like Reddit did
Don’t worry, I’m sure Cursor will be able to clobber your git history and force push to master any day now
we just need a little more AI
I remember SVN
I want to forget SVN
I want SVN little explorer icons back! I want to forget Jazz RTC.
I just want to pause a moment to wish a “fuck you” to the guy who named an AI model “Cursor” as if that’s a useful name. It’s like they’re expecting accidental google searches to be a major source of recruitment.
It’s not an AI model, it’s an IDE
My comment stands
Why did the porn star become a network admin after retiring?
She was already an expert in load balancing
It’s a scary amount of projects these days managed by a bunch of ZIP files:
- Program-2.4.zip
- Program-2.4-FIXED.zip
- Program-2.4-FIXED2.zip
- Program-2.4-FIXED-final.zip
- Program-2.4-FIXED-final-REAL.zip
- Program-2.4-FIXED-FINAL-no-seriously.zip
- Program-2.4-FINAL-use-this.zip
- Program-2.4-FINAL-use-this-2.zip
- Program-2.4-working-maybe.zip
- Program-2.4-FINAL-BUGFIX-LAST-ONE.zip
- Program-2.4-FINAL-BUGFIX-LAST-ONE-v2.zip
- Program-1.5-DeleteThis.zip
- Program-1.6-ScuffedDontUse.zip
- CanWeDeleteThesePlease.txt (last edit 8 months ago)
Inspired by a small collaboration project from a few years ago.
I did that with documents in my Uni years.
By the end, I was using ISO timestamps.If we’re talking actual builds then zip files are perfectly fine as long as the revs make chronological sense.
Just save your prompts and vibes in a Google doc dude
Good thing it’s deterministic, oh wait 😃
You could literally just save a copy to your desktop before you’re going to do something sensitive.
That’s why I take a screenshot of my desktop before something stupid just in case.
Or use VCS like a normal dev
Forget git. Sending zip files into discord once in a while it the way to go.
Especially if they’re .zip files full of military secrets.
I’m not in any war thunder servers.
Congrats discord now owns your code forever
I’d feel sorry for them. My personal projects will only harm them.
Not if you encrypt the zip.
And then make sure to send the encryption key over discord so that the recipient can read it.
svn was invented in 2000
CVS was invented in 1986
SCCS is from 1972, you young whippersnappers
SUN is from 4.6 billion years ago, you mortal beings
I’m a software developer so I’ve never seen that thing you’re talking about, but check your sources, I believe it’s actually from 1982: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems
Now Target owns them, I think.
I landed in the middle. SCCS was too old, CVS was too new.
https://www.gnu.org/software/rcs/
But, back then, I had also been forced to use CMVC.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Configuration_Management_Version_Control
When
bzr, and thengit, turned up and I started using them, I was told “this is DVC, which is a whole new model that takes getting used to”, so I was surprised it seemed normal and straightforward to me.Then I found out that Sun’s Teamware, that I had been using for many years, was a DVC, hence it wasn’t some new model. I’d had a few intervening years on other abominable systems and it was a relief to get back to DVC.
Regarding the original post, are there really people around now who think that before
gitthere was no version control? I’ve never worked without using version control, and I started in the 80s.
“Developer”
“my” 4 months of “work”Those are the ones easily replaced by AI. 99% of stuff “they” did was done by AI anyway!
i kinda miss tortoisesvn
What about tortoisegit
🤮
But actually…
It is good for some things. It even got support for staging files recently.
