I made a game engine and a game back in highschool, but all that code is lost because I didn't know how to use git. I knew git existed (and even knew enough to know it was better than mercurial or svn), but I was too lazy to learn.

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 15 points 11 hours ago

Git wasn't the first version control software. I remember using sccs back in 1991 and apparently it was written all the way back in 1972 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_Code_Control_System

[–] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 23 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Don't trust anyone who can't spell 'oops'.

[–] Amir@lemmy.ml 12 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe he was cursing the god of dev ops

[–] YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Nah his opps fucked up his backup.

[–] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

His operations department?

[–] Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org 18 points 20 hours ago (12 children)

Just a heads up, it you don't know how to use cli git in 2025 you're probably a shit developer. There are undoubtedly exceptions, but I would argue not knowing version control intimately makes you a bad developer.

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[–] Anti_Face_Weapon@lemmy.world 51 points 1 day ago

Fake developer doesn't use version control. Big surprise.

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 8 points 22 hours ago

I need to put a SaaS together called vibe VCS

[–] Scoopta@programming.dev 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Acts like SVN and CVS didn't exist

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[–] Artyom@lemm.ee 82 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I just want to pause a moment to wish a "fuck you" to the guy who named an AI model "Cursor" as if that's a useful name. It's like they're expecting accidental google searches to be a major source of recruitment.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's not an AI model, it's an IDE

[–] Artyom@lemm.ee 25 points 1 day ago

My comment stands

[–] PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 44 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Don't worry, I'm sure Cursor will be able to clobber your git history and force push to master any day now

[–] danhab99@programming.dev 2 points 2 hours ago

Genuine question: what would it take to poison an LLM with ai tools to run git push --force origin main or sudo rm -rf /

[–] jdeath@lemm.ee 8 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

we just need a little more AI

[–] Zron@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

You know, none of the “AI is dangerous” movies thought of the fact that AI would be violently shoved into all products by humans. Usually it’s like a secret military or corporate thing that gets access to the internet and goes rogue.

In reality, it’s fancy text prediction that has been exclusively shoved into as much of the internet as possible.

[–] yarr 71 points 1 day ago (4 children)

It's a scary amount of projects these days managed by a bunch of ZIP files:

Program-2.4.zip
Program-2.4-FIXED.zip
Program-2.4-FIXED2.zip
Program-2.4-FIXED-final.zip
Program-2.4-FIXED-final-REAL.zip
Program-2.4-FIXED-FINAL-no-seriously.zip
Program-2.4-FINAL-use-this.zip
Program-2.4-FINAL-use-this-2.zip
Program-2.4-working-maybe.zip
Program-2.4-FINAL-BUGFIX-LAST-ONE.zip
Program-2.4-FINAL-BUGFIX-LAST-ONE-v2.zip

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I did that with documents in my Uni years.
By the end, I was using ISO timestamps.

[–] Boakes@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Program-1.5-DeleteThis.zip
Program-1.6-ScuffedDontUse.zip
CanWeDeleteThesePlease.txt (last edit 8 months ago)

Inspired by a small collaboration project from a few years ago.

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[–] stopforgettingit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I remember SVN

[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I want to forget SVN

[–] Transtronaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I never understood the SVN hate. Then, as now, the problems are almost never caused by the tools, and almost always caused by the people misusing them.

[–] gamer@lemm.ee 2 points 5 hours ago

I never got around to using anything except git, partly because of all the hate people would throw at the other competitors back in the day. Even if the criticisms were not fair, and even if it was all a secret conspiracy to kill git competitors, it definitely worked out for the best. Imagine the hell we'd be in today if we had to constantly deal with different VCS solutions.

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I want SVN little explorer icons back! I want to forget Jazz RTC.

[–] easily3667@lemmus.org 4 points 19 hours ago

That's tortoise, and have I got news for you: tortoisegit exists.

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 49 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

Just save your prompts and vibes in a Google doc dude

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[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 13 points 1 day ago

Why did the porn star become a network admin after retiring?

She was already an expert in load balancing

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 132 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"Developer"
"my" 4 months of "work"

Those are the ones easily replaced by AI. 99% of stuff "they" did was done by AI anyway!

[–] nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 74 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Forget git. Sending zip files into discord once in a while it the way to go.

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[–] blade_barrier@lemmy.ml 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

svn was invented in 2000

[–] smock9@lemm.ee 44 points 1 day ago (4 children)

CVS was invented in 1986

[–] 7uWqKj@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

SCCS is from 1972, you young whippersnappers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_Code_Control_System

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[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 199 points 1 day ago

At least they were humble and didn't blame it entirely on Cursor... they also blamed Claude.

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