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PaperTrail1063655dTeam Coherence, then Microsoft TFS, then Azure DevOps (which is technically still TFS), now migrating to Azure Git.
Before that, it was a shared network drive. Need to roll back or find a previous version? You contacted the network admins to pull the backup tapes. Yep, tapes. -
Demolishun3093255dNow another question: With Git are you making backups as well? So that Git is not a single point of failure.
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ars1362455dLocal drive folders with time stamps / versions. It was truly revolutionary at the time.
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@Lensflare mhm. But whatcha gonna do? Migrate a 25 year old program from cvs to git? All the revision information and history...
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CoreFusionX299654d
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Lensflare1412754d@joewilliams007 you don‘t migrate a 25 years old project. You kill it with fire :)
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