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"We didn’t have a version control system. Surprisingly, we went all the way to Quake 3 without one, then we started using Visual Source Safe." That is both imp
by cgrealy 7y ago
"We didn’t have a version control system. Surprisingly, we went all the way to Quake 3 without one, then we started using Visual Source Safe."
That is both impressive and terrifying. I'm old enough to remember when I first started using VSS, and being amazed at how awesome source control was :D
These days, it's hard to look back at SourceSafe with anything other than horror....
- alain94040 7y agoThere was a transition from the 80s to late 90s: until you had some kind of network, the important thing was to backup your machine. Daily if you can. Even if you had been running a local revision control on your local machine, you wouldn't be protected enough, so backups were more important. Once networking and servers became more prevalent, it slowly made sense that backups turned into revision control. If your machine crashes, there is a remote repo you can connect to and get back to where you were.