Chapter 7The Cynic

You’ve just spent twenty minutes doing a presentation for your teammates on adopting source control. Yeah, they don’t do source control at all. Yep, not at all—it’s as if the last twenty years of computer science never happened. But better late than never, and frankly any source control is better than none, because disaster is one errant delete away. You did your homework, and you’ve tested for yourself. You tried and retried a number of solutions, but the combination of this particular group, solution maturity, availability of tools, and industry acceptance have led you to choose Subversion. Anyway, you’ve rocked the presentation, and now you’re taking questions.

“I’ve heard that Subversion is yesterday’s news. With Git ...

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