[HN Gopher] An overview of version control in programming
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       An overview of version control in programming
        
       Author : ashvardanian
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2022-04-21 18:02 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | ThereIsNoWorry wrote:
       | My previous employer still uses svn. It created so much headaches
       | and frustration due to unproductivity because e.g. someone pushed
       | a bug without testing and you unknowingly downloaded it. No way
       | to easily reverse of course. It was my first job after University
       | and taught me that CRUD b2b Java enterprise jobs are to avoid at
       | all costs in the future. For what it's worth though, I had some
       | very funny-sad stories to tell when I interviewed to get out of
       | there after just 6 months. Never tought a versioning system could
       | burn me out. Git is standard for very obvious reasons.
        
         | cognomano wrote:
         | Sincere question: what does Git have that makes easy to revert
         | the change on your example that SVN doesn't have? I barely know
         | Git, that's why I ask.
        
           | tom_ wrote:
           | You (or anybody) can use git revert to create a new commit
           | that undoes previous commits: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-
           | revert
           | 
           | Perforce has something similar too: http://ftp.perforce.com/p
           | erforce/r16.2/doc/manuals/cmdref/p4...
        
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