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While people have been using version control for decades it only became the norm for all projects since github became popular. 2010-13ish I would regularly meet
by twunde 7y ago
While people have been using version control for decades it only became the norm for all projects since github became popular. 2010-13ish I would regularly meet senior/mid-level engineers that weren't familiar with Git. In companies that are not tech-first, it can be a battle to get developer tooling in place since its not a feature. Anecdotally, I worked at one place where the deploys were manual FTP file by file for a team of 12-15ish engineers. Automating deployments basically gave us back 1-2 engineers.
- davidw 7y agoPeople have been using version control since I started coding professionally in the 90ies. Granted, it was much crappier (cvs and then subversion), but it still was much better than nothing at all.
- DEADBEEFC0FFEE 7y agoI have worked at places where they just create a new folder and copy everything over. Backups do the rest. Occasionally they would ask for a restore and do a diff.
- jbn 7y agobackup aren't usually reliable (and if they're not tested, they are absolutely not "reliable", you just don't know...), and that's a horrible way to get back old artifacts (it surely is excruciatingly painful compared to just using source control). I think anybody sane would just refuse to work at a company with such practices..