Notices by arclight (arclight@oldbytes.space)

@codewiz @benc My last employer was still using VMS text libraries (see https://docs.vmssoftware.com/docs/VSI_CMD_DEF_LIBRARIAN_MSG_ULITILIES_23-AUGUST-2019.pdf page 44 or so)

I tried interesting people in SVN or even git and I just got blank stares. From 2009 to 2017 I tried almost everything to interest them in anything modern and supported. Failing, I used Mercurial personally for all of my projects because at the time (2008) I could not find a coherent git tutorial. Mercurial took a few days at most to understand and I never had any trouble with it, nothing like what I keep having with git.

Still, git was the popular choice, it was supported by TFS, and IMO it was the easiest sell to people in a mainly Windows environment. There was a sudden interest in git when a regression slipped out to a big client; I started working up a demo and tutorial but was laid off a few months later.

If you are using git submodules for code you distribute outside your organization, you need to reevaluate your life choices.

git is not a dependency management system.

Consider having that tattooed on the inside of your eyelids.

@benc I spend too much time fixing or working around hidden dependencies in other people's code.

git is easily tied for second worst revision control system I've ever used (worst is Visual Source Safe; git is tied with "none")