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Re:Are daily standups hurting your team? by NikolaeVarius on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @11:08AM (#29095738)
Yep, I love yeeting everything into master branch. Fuck process
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Re:Are daily standups hurting your team? by JKCalhoun on Thursday November 04, 2021 @08:45AM (#29106444)
What are branches?

Seriously, it was only "main" when I started at Apple 26 years ago. Our version control was such that when someone wanted to edit a file it was "checked out", locked to others on the team, until it was checked back in.

It worked surprisingly well (obviously no merge conflicts for one thing). I doubt anyone would suggest going back to something as simplistic (but I have to admit Git feels way too complicated than it should at times).

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Re:Are daily standups hurting your team? by spacedcowboy on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @11:54AM (#29096387)
I too was coding 30 years or so ago. Back then we may not have had git, but we certainly had RCS and I recall switching to CVS.

There's a huge difference between a "daily progress meeting" and "sensible development". I too have seen a lot of process creeping into things and I'm glad I'm getting close to retirement.

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