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Why would he? Over the years there are hundreds of projects with thousands of commits accumulated in an average company. Trying to port all that to a new source control "just because" would be the definition of insanity.
throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart.
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I can't think of any reason good enough to compel a company to do that.
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You rarely need to look at commits from 2014 or so. But if you do you can script the port.
For smaller teams up to 10 people CVS or git does not matter much, but if your organizations grows a lot CVS will be elephanting painful.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Seems to me he probably has a good idea what the resource cost is of changing source control systems. We changed from source safe to TFS, I know a bloody silly decision, it took weeks to accomplish and we lost a sh*t load of information in the process.
Innovation for innovations sake is a waste of time and money!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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But sometimes you also have to calculate the cost of retaining a stupid system.
I've been working with CVS (CVSNT) and can tell you that I would (almost) always change to a better system on every project I work actively on.
The biggest problem with CVS:
Versioning is on file level, not on repository level. I'll leave it to the reader to work out all complications that stem from that.
They are many, including that branching is so buggy it just simply doesn't work.
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Thankfully we don't use CVS but we are about to move from TFS to GIT I believe.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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For us the transition from SVN to GIT was relatively painless, as GIT could convert everything nicely including the SVN tag history
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...and that's when the fight started.
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Do I love salads from ma head tomatoes?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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You have head tomatoes? Can't your doctor help? And while he is at it, he can also look at your foot potatoes.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Why should I carrot all?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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You seem to be cherry today
Signature ready for installation. Please Reboot now.
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Be at peas with your meals; as anyone corn tell you who's bean in a kitchen, it take salad of time to prepare them.
(Please don't give me a dressing down for this!)
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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I fish I had your imagination W∴ !
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Whale thank you. On a scale of one to ten, how would you rate it?
(If you're floundering around for an answer, you can skip it).
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Sorry, I am too octopied to give a correct answer.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Lettuce rejoice that you focus on a dressing items which don't shred away or cut into yer day.
The best way to improve Windows is run it on a Mac.
The best way to bring a Mac to its knees is to run Windows on it.
~ my brother Jeff
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I fin he's off the scale.
/ravi
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I have bought my last computers without any OS and right now I only have two left with aging Win7 licenses that have been begging me for years to activate them. This way I was punished with being excluded from forced updates to Win10, normal updates (thank god!) or being allowed to have a background image on the desktop. Seriously?
I just wonder how many people still must resort to something like this[^] when they buy a new computer. I would do it if I had to and wonder how many really do it.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I dunno if that's really true, seeing as the "computer" is bought as a bundle including the software license. Not many shops will let you remove an item from a bundle buy and get the money back.
Like getting a burger from macca's without the pickle: on request they will happily not put the pickle in but the price is the same. (Even less likely to entertain you if you peeled out the pickle and tried handing it back for a refund.)
Signature ready for installation. Please Reboot now.
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If the terms of the license say that you get a refund if you don't agree...
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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My last workstation (3 years ago) came from Dell with Linux installed (Ubuntu). Seems like the W7 removal was worth about $90, don't remember for sure.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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What Linux flavour did you get?
I think that MickeySoft has circumvented the problem lately. The Windows 10 license is 0 or maybe 50 cents. At least on cheap boxes like notebooks...
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Plain vanilla.
Ubuntu
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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