Re:Let's compile Quake like it's 1997
by kristopolous on Friday May 29, 2026 @06:00AM
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TortoiseCVS all the way down. Nothing else came close. (this was before git and svn, kids. relax!)
> Visual SourceSafe
Ugh, instant flashbacks and not the good kind.
I transitioned my employer directly from VSS to git back in the day as soon as I had to start managing sources.
It was pretty bad using vss for a little while but luckily there was a vss2git tool already so it was seamless.
Our customers have just recently finally deprecated SVN lol.
And here I thought I'm dealing with legacy setups!
Re:Let's compile Quake like it's 1997
by Traubenfuchs on Friday May 29, 2026 @05:59AM
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It was my favorite VCS ever at my first workplace where we deployed .war to prod tomcat from eclipse with one click. No tests, no PRs, no tickets. Customer would call me and I could get a change out to them within 5 minutes. Most (and only!) agile workplace I ever experienced in two decades.
Re:Let's compile Quake like it's 1997
by jaymzcampbell on Friday May 29, 2026 @08:28AM
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Speaking of MS and source control, I have to shout out this incredibly niche channel [1] that recently covered "Microsoft Delta", a precursor and home grown effort that was eventually abandoned in favour of buying in what would become SourceSafe.
One thing though that I still have nightmares about is Visual SourceSafe, Microsoft's idea of a source control system for small teams. It was not only terrible to use (and slow), but we regularly lost data in it due to concurrency issues.