Although my current day job is very professional about this, I’ve seen the other side, too. «We have some code from 5-10 y back, can you compile it?» and only h

Although my current day job is very professional about this, I’ve seen the other side, too. «We have some code from 5-10 y back, can you compile it?» and only half the files are there. It would be great if HN had some content on «moving from random files on a network drive to git and basic automated testing» - it’s not an easy job and others would benefit from such writeups.