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I guess I’m an optimist on that front. I’ve lost history from CVS and SCCS, but not from SVN, Perforce, Git or Mercurial, including a number of Git module extra

• jacquesm 6y ago
  Check out a 'zip' file to cross port to a system that does not support your VCS of choice (many embedded systems, for instance) and poof half your docs are gone... VCS should store the code, commit messages should aid in bi-secting but should not explain too much other than to clearly document what was changed in that commit with reference to a particular ticket if available. That way you keep the meta stuff in one place and all the action where the code itself lives, and where you are most likely to need it. I'm a big fan of literate programming, and VCS is not an integral part of that.
  • detaro 6y ago
    Where do you encounter such embedded systems where you then do work on the code on said system? In my niche of embedded work, the "host" machine stays the main interface to work with code almost always (and in the exceptions the "embedded" system is typically PC-grade hardware running Linux)