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The backend team in one of my previous jobs (around 2010) had an interesting file locking mechanism. All the developer were sat around one table but you couldn

by smoe 6y ago

The backend team in one of my previous jobs (around 2010) had an interesting file locking mechanism. All the developer were sat around one table but you couldn’t see each other behind the dual screens. So every hour or so, somebody stood up to inform the team that he is going to be editing file xyz, so please don’t touch. It wasn’t production though, everyone was just working on a shared staging system.

TheManInThePub 6y ago
>an interesting file locking mechanism Only 5 years ago, we had an 'editing stick'. Only the person physically in possession of the editing stick was allowed to make edit the configs to our (early 90's vintage) SCADA system. Frankly the system worked very well: "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". We only got rid of the editing stick when the machinery in question was scrapped.