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I don’t know if I agree that it’s unnatural. It only takes doing index73.php and index_old3.php for a few months and then eventually screwing up (unless you’re

I don’t know if I agree that it’s unnatural. It only takes doing index73.php and index_old3.php for a few months and then eventually screwing up (unless you’re perfect) to realize how dumb putting numbers and _old4 at the end of names is. Then at that point, you naturally go look if there’s a better way.

medstrom 2y ago
Yes, so you invent CVS, not git.
- actionfromafar 2y ago
  You invent VMS versioned files, and RCS. :)
  - gumby 2y ago
    BTW file versioning in the filesystem predated the development of VMS by about 15 years, RCS by about 20.
    - amszmidt 2y ago
      (indirect reference ITS and TENEX ... :-))
cruffle_duffle 2y ago
> Then at that point, you naturally go look if there’s a better way. That might be true now but it wasn’t always. Plenty of shops didn’t have any version control at all. And the build was whatever came off your local dev box. And “local dev box” wasn’t even a term…