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Who Doesn't Use Source Control?

Posted by Cliff on from the cowboy-care-free-programming dept.

VegeBrain asks: "I was reading the description for for a new book, Pragmatic Version Control using CVS and was shocked to read that 'Half of all project teams in the U.S. don't use any version control at all...' Is this true? If so, why? I can't imagine being without one so I'm wondering why anybody would avoid using one, especially now when so many are available for free. Am I missing something here and there really are reasons to not use a VCS?"

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  1. Reasons why we didn't use version control. by Alpha27 · · Score: 4, Informative

    At a small company I worked at with 3 other developers, and 2 designers we did not use a version control system because:
    * we didn't think of installing one, even though a number of negative things happened as a result of not having one.
    * had difficulty installing CVS. After reading the docs to install CVS, I still had trouble getting the thing to work and skipped it completely.
    * we were naive. not everyone who is programming, especially those new to the scene, know about version control.

    I'm not saying these are legitimate reasons, these are excuses for a poor development environment. I have learned from this and have made changes to make my developing better.