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You're assuming they want to learn. I've seen devs work with svn for years which is conceptually much simpler and they still don't know how branching and mergin
by flukus 7y ago
You're assuming they want to learn. I've seen devs work with svn for years which is conceptually much simpler and they still don't know how branching and merging work, they'll do things like checkout each branch separately and copy files over rather than merge.
Edit - also a favourite interview question for anyone that claims to be familiar with svn is "what does the switch command do", a quick and easy filter to seperate those that know from those that claim to know.
- slavik81 7y agoI felt their attitude towards SVN was silly, so I decided I would make my change the right way. But when I went to merge, I got a bizzare error about a 'missing revprop' and it knocked the wind out of my sails. I'm ashamed to admit it, but I ended up copying the files just like everyone else on that project for the brief stint I worked on it. :(