Comments on: Why version control? http://imprompt.us/2010/why-version-control/ Computer Science and Teaching and Other Ancillary Things Sat, 24 Jul 2010 12:23:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Justin B http://imprompt.us/2010/why-version-control/comment-page-1/#comment-16803 Justin B Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:37:34 +0000 http://imprompt.us/2010/why-version-control/#comment-16803 My coworkers don't seem to get the "you can throw it all away" concept. Sometimes while wandering through code that is largely their responsibility, I find large blocks of long-dead code commented out. While I'm on this topic, they also leave disappointingly terse commit descriptions. I'll admit I'm the other extreme and leave small novels as my comments, but at least some random employee who may replace me 10 years down the line could theoretically understand why I did some crazy thing I did... My coworkers don't seem to get the “you can throw it all away” concept. Sometimes while wandering through code that is largely their responsibility, I find large blocks of long-dead code commented out. While I'm on this topic, they also leave disappointingly terse commit descriptions. I'll admit I'm the other extreme and leave small novels as my comments, but at least some random employee who may replace me 10 years down the line could theoretically understand why I did some crazy thing I did…

]]> By: Daniel Stutzbach http://imprompt.us/2010/why-version-control/comment-page-1/#comment-16802 Daniel Stutzbach Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:01:05 +0000 http://imprompt.us/2010/why-version-control/#comment-16802 Revision control systems are nice, but I often wish for an automatic version control system that worked on everything -- not just source code that I've had the foresight to put under a revision control system. This is one feature that VMS got right. Any time you edited a file, it kept the old file around, too.<br><br>In lieu of a proper revision control system for everything, I have daily incremental backups set up plus I have emacs configured to save all previous revisions of a file in a .backup/ folder. Revision control systems are nice, but I often wish for an automatic version control system that worked on everything — not just source code that I've had the foresight to put under a revision control system. This is one feature that VMS got right. Any time you edited a file, it kept the old file around, too.

In lieu of a proper revision control system for everything, I have daily incremental backups set up plus I have emacs configured to save all previous revisions of a file in a .backup/ folder.

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