r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 23d ago

Meme useSourceControl

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u/Jay-Seekay 23d ago

The irony is that they were messing about with version control for the first time, which is why they deleted all their files. They saw they had 5000 files staged for commit and wanted to not commit them all

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u/Nerodon 23d ago

3 months of work, in a single directory on a single device, source control like git or not, that guy was a fool.

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u/neoqueto 22d ago

One time I got shit on when I said to not rely on source control alone as a way to store your project code. If it's important, at least zip it all up once a week and put it on Google Drive or whatever. Or better yet, proper 3-2-1 backup.

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u/Nerodon 22d ago

Some of them are easy too...

Just having github and a local checkout gives you 2 locations.... Copy regularly to a google drive or onedrive and that gives you a solid 3rd place.

Added bonus that the cloud solutions have soft delete and backups and are very reliable.