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		cruffle_duffle on Aug 3, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: "We ran out of columns" I can assure you they are true. Version control was still “controversial” in a lot of shops for quite some time. Plenty of places had the classic “v1, v2.3, v2_next_debug_cruffle_duffle” way of managing versions for a very, very long time. Well into the subversion era…

CRConrad on Aug 17, 2024 [–]

I know places that still do it that way. Not necessarily tiny places either.

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