>"You knew I was going to go from version control, your fault for not fixing it in there" is a proven technique for getting people to actually use version contr

>"You knew I was going to go from version control, your fault for not fixing it in there" is a proven technique for getting people to actually use version control. I've seen it done, and know people who did it at several other organizations and it works. I know being an ass to people works. Tried and true for sure, very passive aggressive technique to get developers to do things. Also just keeping a production branch and development branch works too. Check in the production changes to production branch. Production hotshot doesn't port over changes or at least mention the important ones to the guys working on the dev team? Kick that poor behavior to his boss about how he's not pulling his weight, staffing problems are HIS problem not yours, and by strongarming the guy with passive aggressive overwrites, you're screwing the company AND the hotshot, rather than just the hotshot.