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For Techies Only: What Was Elon Musk Trying to Say With His Cryptic Tweet about Git and Subversion?
PJ Media ^ | 11/06/2022 | Charlie Martin

Posted on 11/06/2022 1:59:44 PM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

No severance pay? Check how much they will get from now to Feb 2023 without doing a thing except obeying the Twitter handbook?


21 posted on 11/06/2022 5:04:49 PM PST by spintreebob
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To: SeekAndFind

I suspect the coders weren’t lazy but this lousy system helps hide their deceptive clean up before the transition. ... all the code that did the dirty deeds has been removed and those old folders deleted.


22 posted on 11/06/2022 5:29:00 PM PST by MarthaInKilgore
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To: ClearCase_guy

Makes sense. Tks for posting.


23 posted on 11/06/2022 6:06:09 PM PST by nicollo ("I said no!")
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To: ClearCase_guy

>> “Subversion” is older and more primitive but was respectable in it’s day.

Heh... that’s what I use. As opposed to my customers’ “no source control at all”. :-)

Oh well, I’m dated. So what... retirement is just around the corner.


24 posted on 11/06/2022 9:38:57 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Truth is not hate speech.)
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I started with CVS, and that’s one step behind Subversion. But I haven’t actually used any real revision control tool for many years. Which is a shame.


25 posted on 11/07/2022 3:44:35 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (We are already in a revolutionary period, and the Rule of Law means nothing. )
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To: LambSlave

Just thinking about this it does make sense. If Twitter is extremely paranoid about the possibility of outsiders reading their source code and they don’t have resources to develop version control software in-house, the old method of backing up changes by manually changing file names is a simple low cost solution.


26 posted on 11/07/2022 7:48:19 AM PST by Prolixus (In all seriousness:)
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