Chapter 5The Uninformed
It’s 6 p.m. on a Friday evening, and you’re working with a co-worker whose hard drive crashed yesterday. He’s rebuilt his machine and restored from backup, but he’s lost everything he did Wednesday and Thursday including some important bug fixes. You point out that he can still pull down his changes from the source control server. He then asks this question:
“What’s source control?”
Of course, he doesn’t use source control; in fact, he’s never heard about it. He’s seen your emails about the new Subversion server,[4] but seeing the emails and reading them are not the same thing. He didn’t think it was something he had to worry about.
Whoever said “ignorance is bliss” has never tried to kludge together the contents of ...
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