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Re:How Microsoft Office Moved from Source Depot to Git by DanielHB on Thursday June 12, 2025 @09:14AM (#44257434)
I almost cried of happiness when we moved to git from SVN on my first job after being there for 6 months

They might not be upset on the first few weeks but after a month or so they will be familiar with the pain.

Re:How Microsoft Office Moved from Source Depot to Git by kccqzy on Thursday June 12, 2025 @02:17PM (#44260923)
Oh a month is definitely enough time.
Re:How Microsoft Office Moved from Source Depot to Git by throwaway2037 on Friday June 13, 2025 @04:40AM (#44266830)

    > cried of happiness when we moved to git from SVN
You bring back some real memories with this phrase.

I recall moving from RCS and CVS and thinking: "Oh, this is a real improvement." (Forgive me; I was young.)

Then, I moved from CVS to SVN and thought: "This is revolutionary. I can rename and merge." (Again, please withhold throwing your tomatoes until the end of the story!)

Later, projects grew large enough, that SVN became horrible because of how I/O worked on my PCs/networks (file by file, long before 1G network to developer PCs and horribly slow spinning disks).

The upgrade to Git was epic. Sure, the commands are weird and complex. More than 10 years later, I still need to lookup a command once a month, but it beats the pants off anything before. Hat tip to all the people (Hamano-san, et al) who have contributed to Git in the last 20 years. My life as a developer is so much better for it.

Re:How Microsoft Office Moved from Source Depot to Git by DanielHB on Friday June 13, 2025 @01:33PM (#44270467)
I never used CVS but I remember our internal joke about SVN is that SVN is like hotel California, you can branch but you can never leave [by merging the branch]