Things Every Hacker Once Knew

Re:Things Every Hacker Once Knew by xcdzvyn on Friday September 29, 2023 @10:31AM (#37704867)

I've heard Perforce is still pretty common in game dev shops because it handles big files way better

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Re:Things Every Hacker Once Knew by pasc1878 on Friday September 29, 2023 @04:53PM (#37709964)

Yes but they are not the subject of this article - the part where he says that git has replaced other VCS is about distributed development.

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Re:Things Every Hacker Once Knew by khalladay on Monday October 02, 2023 @12:14AM (#37733920)

Yep. And also because we work with a lot of binary data which can't be merged in any sand way. Being able to lock a binary file youre working with is a necessity.

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