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[-] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 41 points 2 months ago

That last one is more common than I'd like, a lot more

[-] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

$ cp -r src/ src.old

No sir never seen it in me life, honest to god sir

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 35 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
cd ~/repos/work-project27
git checkout dev
git branch new_feature
### code for a few hours, close laptop, go to sleep, next morning
git checkout dev
### code for a few more hours, close laptop go to sleep, next morning
## "oh fuck, I already implemented this in new_feature but differently"
git checkout dev
git diff new_feature
## "oh no. oh no no no. oh fuck. I can't merge any of this upstream and my history is borked."
git clone git@workhub:work/work-project work-project28
cd ~/repos/work-project28
[-] tamlyn@lemmy.zip 16 points 2 months ago

At university there were some students that want to manage projekts in could storange. That was just stupid but i didn't know it better at that time.

[-] lesnout27@feddit.org 44 points 2 months ago
[-] tamlyn@lemmy.zip 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'm sick...that's my excuse....

[-] lesnout27@feddit.org 15 points 2 months ago

Didn't want to be mean with the meme

[-] tamlyn@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 months ago

Don't worry, it's fun

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

It's quantum stuff, I could do that, or I could not do that...

[-] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 13 points 2 months ago

The last is just a normal git workflow, isn’t it?

[-] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

I'm pretty sure it means, they copy and paste the project file and iterate the version number manually.

[-] mEEGal@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

the last one is just immutability, praised in modern JS / TS, albeit at the repo level

[-] frezik@midwest.social 15 points 2 months ago

I "love" how JavaScript has slowly rediscovered every piece of functional programming wisdom that was developed before 1980.

[-] expr@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

Kind of, though they honestly just do pretend immutability. Object references are still copied everywhere.

[-] 0101100101@programming.dev 5 points 2 months ago

All of javascript is kinda just pretend.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 2 points 2 months ago

I find you need the whole ecosystem to support immutability to make it work. Every library needs to be based around it. Elixir is about the only modern option that does.

[-] Slotos@feddit.nl 10 points 2 months ago

Why did you mention git twice?

[-] thadah 5 points 2 months ago

While TFS did support Git, I had to deal with the much worse TFVC for a long while, up until Azure DevOps came along.

[-] Ugurcan@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It’s actually a pretty good idea to have a full system snapshot time to time, where the project can compile successfully, for future Virtual Machine use. It’s usually easier to spin a VM than setting up the whole dev environment from scratch.

[-] Alphare@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

As one of the maintainers of Mercurial, I take great offense in this meme. ;)

[-] nogooduser@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

It’s definitely up with Git in my opinion. I much prefer the branching in Mercurial.

It’s certainly very offensive to lump it in the same band as SVN and TFVC.

[-] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 months ago

What could possibly be preferrable to git switch -c <branchname>?

[-] nogooduser@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

It’s not the mechanism of branching that I prefer.

It’s the fact that Mercurial tags the commit with the name of the branch that it was committed to which makes it much easier to determine whether a commit is included in your current branch or not.

Also, Mercurial has a powerful revision search feature built in which I love (https://www.mercurial-scm.org/doc/hg.1.html#revisions).

[-] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago

I admit that I have been bitten by the fact that commits don’t have a “true home branch”.

[-] balsoft@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

It’s the fact that Mercurial tags the commit with the name of the branch that it was committed to which makes it much easier to determine whether a commit is included in your current branch or not.

Isn't this trivial in Git too? git branch --contains COMMIT ?

[-] Alphare@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Sure, if you want to do it once, but Git still has to compute that information (save for a new-ish cache that is just that, a cache). But that is not the point really, the point is that Mercurial's graph Is the same (topologically) everywhere, which is not the case in Git because branches (and thus remotes) have different names. So saying that a branch contains a commit is not the same as a commit being on a branch. There are a bunch of great properties that emerge from this but it's too long for this comment and I should actually properly write this down at some point this year.

[-] Alphare@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Given that Git and Mercurial were both created around April 2005 to serve the same purpose by very similar people for the same reason... I'd say it's fair!

[-] brandon@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago

MyProject - Copy v2.bak new NEW (3)/

[-] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 months ago

And when it’s release, then you rename it to

MyProject - Copy v2.bak new NEW (3) FINAL.2-19-24/

and then at the next standup, we all ponder how we can rename it to

MyProject - Copy v2.bak new NEW (3) FINAL.2/19/24/

because the team lead needs m/d/yy names with forward slashes

[-] PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 5 points 2 months ago
[-] magikmw@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

With properly configured subvolumes, I'll allow it.

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[-] yogsototh@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago
cp $fic $fic.$(date -Iseconds)
git commit -a -m "save at $(date -Iseconds)"
# edit $fic
git commit -a -m "save at $(date -Iseconds)"
git push -f
[-] nogooduser@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

And worse than all of those options is Visual Sourcesafe.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Fox Pro!

Shrug

[-] 0101100101@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

CVS is gonna make a comeback! I tell ya!

[-] 0101100101@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

I do miss the tags of SVN that would replace certain strings on each commit such as the date, a version number, etc.

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I miss mercurial and it's far more sensical flags and commands...

[-] Alphare@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

It's still here and very much alive in case you were curious.

[-] nogooduser@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

The only reason that we stopped using Mercurial is that Microsoft used Git in Azure DevOps. I still wish that they’d supported Mercurial instead of or as well as Git.

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 2 points 2 months ago

Me too. It also handled some situations, like divergent lines in the same branch or obsolete changes, much better.

[-] nogooduser@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I really liked Mercurial too. It was much easier to follow branches to find out if a branch included a commit.

[-] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 months ago

No love for cvs?

[-] JadeSleeps 1 points 2 months ago

The last one can easily describe Django. Feels like depending on the code base/your mistakes/people you work with can easily turn a normal project into a project where majority of the files is just migration files.

[-] almost1337@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Perforce Helix, here I come!

[-] mrkite@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

cp index.php index.php-20250220

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