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I can't see any decent school not teaching version control. It's immensely valuable even to the solo developer. Hell, my shitty school taught us Microsoft Sourc

I can't see any decent school not teaching version control. It's immensely valuable even to the solo developer. Hell, my shitty school taught us Microsoft SourceSafe, which was hilarious because two team members couldn't work on the same file simultaneously. You'd get lots of late night phone calls: "Check in the damn file so I can edit it!"

JoeAltmaier 11y ago
That's a misconception. If you set the VSS 'lock on checkout' flag, then yes it sucks. Its a mistake to set that on a project, yet its the default (?!) There are adequate merge tools available in VSS, like any other source control tool. Disabling them is silly. I consider source control to BEGIN when two people check out the same file. If you can't do that, then its really version control.