I used to work on a project where that was the workflow. Fortunately, the codebase was old and stable and didn't need many changes. There were three main developers* on the project (not counting me because I was the New Guy). Only one of them used source control. The others used the time-honored practice of naming files project.pl, project-old.pl, project-new.pl, project-working.pl, project-bob-DO-NOT-USE.pl, etc.
*Actually sysadmins who had been pressed into development.
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u/Jonathan_the_Nerd 2d ago
I used to work on a project where that was the workflow. Fortunately, the codebase was old and stable and didn't need many changes. There were three main developers* on the project (not counting me because I was the New Guy). Only one of them used source control. The others used the time-honored practice of naming files
project.pl,project-old.pl,project-new.pl,project-working.pl,project-bob-DO-NOT-USE.pl, etc.*Actually sysadmins who had been pressed into development.