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Re:How Microsoft Office Moved from Source Depot to Git by inglor on Thursday June 12, 2025 @02:29PM (#44261160)
The problem is that you come to a prestigious place like Microsoft and end up using horrible outdated software.

Credit where credit is due at my time at Excel we did improve things a lot (migration from Script# to TypeScript, migration from SourceDepot to git, shorter dev loop and better tooling etc) and a large chunk of development time was spent on developer tooling/happiness.

But it does suck to have to go to one of the old places and use sourcedepot and `osubmit` the "make a change" tool and then go over 16 popups in the "happy path" to submit your patch for review (also done in a weird windows gui review tool)

Git was quite the improvement :D

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Re:How Microsoft Office Moved from Source Depot to Git by jamesfinlayson on Friday June 13, 2025 @01:35AM (#44265973)
What's Script#?
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Re:How Microsoft Office Moved from Source Depot to Git by jimbobimbo on Friday June 13, 2025 @11:21AM (#44269357)
C# like language compiled to Javascript.
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