That's possibly the one.. I worked for a year on a customer's site, and the source we delivered had to be put into their MS VC every time we delivered it. The m

That's possibly the one.. I worked for a year on a customer's site, and the source we delivered had to be put into their MS VC every time we delivered it. The major pain was that the namespace was flat.. you couldn't have more than one file in the whole tree called "Makefile" or "ChangeLog", for example.. so we made a transformation tool to make every file name unique before it got pushed into the version control system, and a reverse tool which transformed back when you checked it out, so that one could build the software.