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The first large C++ project I worked on in mid-1990s was basically preserving a bunch of archived copies of the source tree. CVS was a thing but not on Windows,
by varjag 3y ago
The first large C++ project I worked on in mid-1990s was basically preserving a bunch of archived copies of the source tree. CVS was a thing but not on Windows, and SourceSafe was creating more problems than it been solving.
- mst 3y agoI kept regular tarballs of a project that used SourceSafe right near the start of my career, and found I was more likely to be able to find an intact copy of the right thing to diff against from my tarballs. I think after a year or so I realised that even bothering to -try- to use SourceSafe was largely silly, got permission to stop, and installed a CVS server on a dev box for my own use. (yes I know the VCS server shouldn't really be on the dev box I could potentially trash, I didn't have another machine handy and it was still a vast improvement)