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2 days agoThey were using SourceSafe back then. But any source control that isnt decentralised has the same problem. If the central server gets deleted so does all history
Just some Software Engineer
They were using SourceSafe back then. But any source control that isnt decentralised has the same problem. If the central server gets deleted so does all history
Software company before git. The source server corrupted and the product code was lost. 5 guys had to get together and figure out the latest version between them (everybody had different changesets) and produce a new “current” version. At the end we lost all history prior and ever since all changes prior to 2008 have been attributed to 1 guy.
XKCD single-handedly saving an entire population
Our repo is old as time. Carried through from SourceSafe to TFS to Git