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I met Tarn at GDC, and his answer to not using version control was using a backup of the source code in labeled CDs

• e12e 11y ago
  So he's using version control, just pretty poor and manual version control. I have a hard time seeing myself preferring to use "labelled CDs" over Merurial with an off-site copy or two -- but just because a system doesn't mostly consist of (automated) software, doesn't mean it's not a system. It's not as if Mercurial/git (in most setups) works without manual intervention (git commit) -- and arguably having automatic snapshots is worse than having manual commits (eg: if I was more diligent making use of etckeeper for my laptop, it'd contain much more useful information than the now mostly "automatic commit before apt-get upgrade". But at least it gives me some automated rollback options when I forget what I was doing with a certain daemon config or tweaking xorg manually).