Ask HN: Are there still companies that don't use version control systems?

1 pointratsimihah4 comments

If so, what alternatives do you use?

At the first place I worked at: Zip Files. $customername-YYYYMMDD.zip. "Branches"? Easy. Just create a new folder. Merging? WinMerge is your friend :-D Deployment was sending a Zip File with DLLs to the customer. Obviously no build system, but built on the dev's local system.

Thank god I could convince the team to move to SVN.

It sure feels archaic!

Absolutely. I currently support a team of developers that flat out aren't interested.

The "alternative" is they log tickets with helpdesk going "can you please restore this file from backup from a few weeks ago". It's awful.

It's a startup you may have heard of.

Interesting how they're using the flexibility the lack of hierarchy allows startups counter-productively.

I can't think of any startup that would do that, can you give me a hint?

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