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NOT.
On a job interview the R&D manager [a technically strong person, but not the innovative type] told me:
"You should know that we use CVS here. Some of the young guys tell me we should switch to git. I always ask them to convince me. But no one has succeeded [hah!]"
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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megaadam wrote: Some of the young guys tell me we should switch to git. I always ask them to convince me.
Tell him there's already a git in the office, when he asks who/where tell him to look in a mirror.
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And at that point you got up and headed for the door...
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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I suspect he was just stress-testing you 
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What's a drugstore chain got to do with source control?  Where to git drugs? 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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megaadam wrote: I always ask them to convince me. But no one has succeeded [hah!]"
Sometimes the reason someone can't be convinced of anything is because they're just too dumb to understand.
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Having not used CVS myself, I can only take a stab in the dark but unless you can prove that the amount of time spent dealing with it is less than what you would spend on a private GIT repo, you'll never beat free, open-source CVS.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
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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?
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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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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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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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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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