With previous version-control systems, such as SVN and CVS, I found that pair programming helps a great deal with this problem. I started using Git after my la

With previous version-control systems, such as SVN and CVS, I found that pair programming helps a great deal with this problem. I started using Git after my last pair-programming gig, unfortunately, but I imagine it would help there too. (I started using Git in 02009, with networking strictly over ssh and, for pulls, HTTP.)