Start using version control!

[anonymous_user_9ea3901c]

@TheJamsh;276947

Perforce everyday <3 Tortoise is nice too!

I can’t stand GIT, love the people that work there. They need to employ someone who has never used GIT before and only then will they realise how bloody hard to use it is for people who haven’t used it before. I’d love to use it because it seems super-powerful and has great online support, but the learning curve is just too steep.

Source Control isn’t just for Backup purposes though, it’s a core part of feature integration and stoof. I can integrate a feature one way, try and do something better, realise it’s NOT better and rollback. You also get branching and integrating etc.

Worth learning.

I understand that. Used to be in the same camp myself, as a long time VSS, CVS, SVN user with my main background in windows. But over the last couple of years I sort of accidentally became primarily an open source developer and had to become familiar with git. I think once you start actually using it you will never want to go back :). What seems hard in the beginning is extremely simple once you understand the basic principles. In actual practice I rarely have to do anything more complicated than

git checkout mybranch
git pull
git commit
git push

And the occasional

git merge myotherbranch

That’s about it. The power of the tool is actually in its simplicity, and the things it doesn’t try to do. It’s true that you can run into more complicated situations (submodules for example) and that the commands you have to enter in those cases can be intimidatingly complex, but really for me that’s been extremely rare, and pretty much always there is a solution well-documented within easy reach.