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 14 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Amir@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 hour ago

Maybe he was cursing the god of dev ops

[–] Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org 9 points 10 hours ago (1 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.

[+] easily3667@lemmus.org -13 points 9 hours ago (5 children)

Why learn an archaic and honestly horrifying command line interface, possibly the worst CLI ever made in the history of computing...when nice normal graphical interfaces work better, have discoverability, have troubleshooting tools, and don't require memorizing scripture?

[–] ScoreDivision@programming.dev 4 points 59 minutes ago* (last edited 58 minutes ago)

Mate... Theres maybe like 5 "git + singleword" commands that cover 99.999% of all of your uses of git. Its really not hard.

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 3 points 1 hour ago

Most cli stuff is a lot easier than programming. If you can't use cli then by definition you're a shit programmer.

Of course if you simply don't want to use cli that's a different matter.

[–] expr@programming.dev 3 points 2 hours ago

Because they are universally incapable of coming anywhere close to the full power of git.

I can't tell you how many times I've had GUI-only people ask me to unfuck their repo (fortunately not at my current job, because everyone uses the CLI and actually knows what they're doing). It's an impedance to actually learning the tool.

Ultimately any GUI is a poor, leaky abstraction over git that restricts many of the things you can do for little actual benefit.

[–] Amir@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 hour ago

As someone using git for the last 10 years by now: you're wrong. No UI has managed to give me access to all the fuckery I often do very quickly on the command line. I was honestly surprised to see IntelliJ nowadays supports an interactive rebase, but reflog, which should be a basic git feature, is still not widely supported in most IDEs in 2025. Or adding, resetting or checking out files with regex. Setting up and modifying lfs. And these are all basic features, good luck doing something like using branch~n syntax for some of the operations etc.

Git UI is shit and will be for a long time.

[–] Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

The fact that you don't already know why and are dependent on GUI tools that you don't fully understand is the reason that you're probably not a very good developer.

Git is incredibly powerful. Knowing why and how is infinitely valuable. Nothing about git cli is archaic or even particularly difficult to understand. Also the man page is very excellent.

[–] easily3667@lemmus.org -2 points 2 hours ago

Ah, the no true Scotsman fallacy. Neat.

Your lack of rational thought backed up by facts rather than feelings is why you're a bad developer.

See I can do it too.

But honestly even saying "nothing about the git cli is archaic" is...well, it's either disqualifying or Stockholm syndrome, and Stockholm syndrome isn't real.

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 6 points 12 hours ago

I need to put a SaaS together called vibe VCS

[–] Anti_Face_Weapon@lemmy.world 41 points 18 hours ago

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

[–] Scoopta@programming.dev 36 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Acts like SVN and CVS didn't exist

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours ago

Also like Reddit did

[–] PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 38 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] jdeath@lemm.ee 7 points 14 hours ago

we just need a little more AI

[–] Artyom@lemm.ee 76 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 8 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Artyom@lemm.ee 20 points 14 hours ago

My comment stands

[–] stopforgettingit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I remember SVN

[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 13 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I want to forget SVN

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] easily3667@lemmus.org 3 points 9 hours ago

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

[–] yarr@feddit.nl 67 points 1 day ago (3 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

[–] Boakes@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 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.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

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

[–] iegod@lemm.ee 2 points 14 hours ago

If we're talking actual builds then zip files are perfectly fine as long as the revs make chronological sense.

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 11 points 18 hours ago

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

She was already an expert in load balancing

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 45 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Just save your prompts and vibes in a Google doc dude

[–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 1 day ago

Good thing it's deterministic, oh wait 😃

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[–] nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 71 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 10 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Especially if they're .zip files full of military secrets.

[–] nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 11 points 21 hours ago

I'm not in any war thunder servers.

[–] easily3667@lemmus.org 24 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Congrats discord now owns your code forever

[–] nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 14 points 1 day ago

I'd feel sorry for them. My personal projects will only harm them.

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[–] 30p87@feddit.org 125 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!

[–] blade_barrier@lemmy.ml 40 points 1 day ago (1 children)

svn was invented in 2000

[–] smock9@lemm.ee 42 points 1 day ago (4 children)

CVS was invented in 1986

[–] 7uWqKj@lemmy.world 24 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

SCCS is from 1972, you young whippersnappers

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

[–] BleatingZombie@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

SUN is from 4.6 billion years ago, you mortal beings

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun

[–] 7uWqKj@lemmy.world 13 points 20 hours ago

I’m a software developer so I’ve never seen that thing you’re talking about, but check your sources, I believe it’s actually from 1982: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems

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[–] darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 98 points 1 day ago (14 children)

The first version control system I ever used was CVS and it was first released in 1986 so it was already old and well established when I first came to use it.

Anyone in these past forty years not using a version control system to keep track of their source code have only themselves to blame.

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[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 193 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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