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Source Control? No thanks.

Tuesday, January 31st, 2012 at 11:59 pm

I prefer to live life DANGEROUSLY.

I’ve never been a fan of source control, checking things in and out, locked files, merging files, etc. I always found it more tedious than beneficial. After all, I make my own backups during project milestones. And I was one of the 5 or so developers that didn’t properly use Source Control at my work when they tried to implement it, and if one person doesn’t use it, the whole thing crashes down. LOL so basically, I ruined it for everyone else /flex. And no, I don’t feel bad, our team still got along great without it.

I know I’m playing devil’s advocate here. I know Source Control is good. There are few drawbacks and using a few seconds here and there can save hours if something goes wrong.

I think it’s basically just that I’m arrogant, so arrogant in fact that I don’t believe I’d ever make such ridiculous mistakes. After all, I’m perfect. Or at least close to it. Or…more accurately I just try to be. But I guess WE ALL make mistakes…..and when those mistakes happen (as they have in the past), I won’t be ready cuz I’m too arrogant to have used Source Control. Sorry, that was some kind of cyclical argument. Basically, I admit I’m flawed and my arrogance is one of my downfalls.

I was in a meeting last Friday and wrote down “Source Control” and “Arrogance” (beside my doodle of Cyclops from the X-Men) I guess as something to blog about. So here it is. :/

/just wanted to write something

One Response to “Source Control? No thanks.”

  1. El Granto says:

    Your perfection aside when working within the confines of a content management system like we do at work I don’t understand the concept of source control that much either. It’s built in. We don’t need it. For our code that is…

    It’s great to have in a project management system because all documents are stored in a single spot and you can track changes.

    The designers would benefit from it too as we wouldn’t have any “Sorry, Simon’s not here so we can’t get the file”.

    When I worked at a company where we used straight code and had no CMS source control was essential so that I could work on pages that you had recently changed without messing anything up. Or even we could work on the same pages at the same time. Or if some employees got disgruntled, quit, and wiped their computers and the servers (which actually happened before I worked there).

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