Real world requirements intrude: Years ago, in our 100+ coder company I kept finding copies of Microsoft's Developer CDs in CVS. Everything to set up a build m

Real world requirements intrude: Years ago, in our 100+ coder company I kept finding copies of Microsoft's Developer CDs in CVS. Everything to set up a build machine was in there. Furthermore, because developers sometimes didn't all have the same build environments, all of the intermediate builds were also checked in since you couldn't assume your machine would build exactly the same executable code as anyone else's machine. CVS was definitely not built for this, but it worked. And if it works, and a programmer thinks it solves his problem, it will be used. I discovered this because we kept getting problems with orphaned CVS locks, and people complaining of the slow checkins (CVS did the diff on the server, so upload the slow way over your ADSL line all those giant files that didn't change.) Which led to the day I typo'd a lock removal command and deleted all files with "rfl" in their name. Not a common sequence, unless your software deals with "overfly"s. Hurray for backups!