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Comment by toadi | Hacker News Reader

You remember CVS hell yeah and SVN too ;) Fuck am I getting old...

projrc3.zip

I know people who still make zip/tarball copies of source trees because they don’t trust git, etc.

Meanwhile, other people trust git so much that they treat it more as a tool for doing an incremental back-up than as a distributed VCS (git commit -a -m x && git push).

I must admit I have occasionally used git as a tool for transferring files (https://xkcd.com/949/).

I am actually doing exactly that to manage my personal KeyPass database, down to using "x" as the commit message; it works reasonably well since GitHub allows you to download files with just HTTPS.

Eh, there is nothing particularly wrong with

    #!/bin/sh -e
    TARGET=../$(basename "$(pwd)")@$(date --utc +'%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ').tar.gz
    tar czf "$TARGET" .

You can even add a fourth line to upload it somewhere automatically...

> Only wimps use version control: real men just merge patches from their email inbox, upload release tarballs on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)

-- Linus Torvalds

(not really, but almost)

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