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I'm just amazed and disturbed that people who write this kind of code are aware of version control.
by easy_rider 13y ago
I'm just amazed and disturbed that people who write this kind of code are aware of version control.
- PommeDeTerre 13y agoThe person who checked in code isn't necessarily the person who wrote it in the first place. When dealing with legacy code, especially code going back into the 1980s for example, it's not at all unusual for the code to have been stored in several different version control systems over that time. I know of projects that started with SCCS, moved to RCS, then to CVS, then to Perforce, then to Subversion, and most recently to Git. If those transitions are done quickly, then somebody will often just take all of the code from a checkout of the old VCS, and check it into the new system. The same can happen when initially using a VCS, after having not used one before, especially when taking a project over from a developer or even a team that was less-talented. Even if the new developer(s) are going to review the code, and fix bugs and other flaws, a version with the initial state of the code is often a useful thing to have.