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Deep inside some large enterprise company: Jr Engineer: "Hey, I know we've always managed our little dotnet application via email and shared-network-drive, but
by bloaf 5y ago
Deep inside some large enterprise company:
Jr Engineer: "Hey, I know we've always managed our little dotnet application via email and shared-network-drive, but I've been reading about a thing called "git" that we should probably use."
Sr Engineer: "Change is scary and bad, also we are not a software company. We're not going to learn some newfangled whatsit. Just email me the .vba files when you want me to review the changes with the one copy of visual studio 2008 that our team has access to."
Jr Engineer: "C'mon, give it a chance! We can leave everything the way its always been, but have better tracking of changes. Remember that time Bruno hard coded the tool to point to the C: drive? Git would let us just undo that, instead of having to search our emails for the last-most-recent version."
Sr Engineer: "Ok fine, I've got 10 minutes, show me."
Jr Engineer: "Ahh! Well I just got it installed, so let me go to the network drive... and then I think I have to git init our project folder... huh? Let me just... Maybe if I..."
Sr Engineer: "Times up! Looks like this "git" thing isn't compatible with our setup after all. Those modern dev types never make anything that works in a real enterprise environment."
- codetrotter 5y agoTime to preemptively post this to StackOverflow and self-solve the question for some of that sweet sweet StackOverflow rep. jk
- sosodev 5y agoThe premise of this story is one I lived. I was a web dev intern for a local government office and they actually emailed each other zips of dotnet apps. The only difference is that my git pitch went really well and they promised they would start using it. They never started using it.
- legalcorrection 5y agoLocal government software dev is making half of what they could make doing barely anything at a private sector operation. Not surprising there’s an IQ problem.
- Shalomboy 5y agoHey, don't chalk it up to IQ. I've met plenty of people in government software dev who work hard trying to make a dent in their career because they came from backgrounds which private sector operations ignore. The person you're talking about totally exists, but they run the department.
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- xarope 5y agoWe joke, but actually the legacy team I took over a few years ago, used to do this (email each other stuff, and versioning/branching was basically copying folders around). I had to drag them kicking and screaming into git (and self-hosted gitlab - thanks gitlab; no, seriously, I do really appreciate it), and now they wonder how they ever survived.
- JetAlone 5y agoI can relate to both of the engineers in this puppet theater.