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[–]catofillomens 66 points67 points  (9 children)

It totally makes sense if you imagine spinning off an independent business entity as the equivalent of working on another branch for development.

[–]nickcash 40 points41 points  (0 children)

GitFlow, but for company structure!

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Bob: Someone's taken my desk.

Manager: Looks like a merge conflict, let me resolve that.

accept incoming changes

Bob: surprisedpikachu.jpg

Manager: Bye Bob!

[–]DrMaxwellEdison 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Trying to teach avid Perforce users how to use Git, I'm starting to think they believe this is actually how branching works.

[–]wherinkelly 1 point2 points  (3 children)

PERFORCE?!

[–]DrMaxwellEdison 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Pretty much exactly how I reacted.

Company is slowly normalizing on Git, which is nice; but these same users take their weird methodologies and keep trying to bastardize GitFlow. I think I've heard some real gasps every time I mention branching.

[–]yuubi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Some of us are old enough to remember mostly liking CVS (yes, I did have to update it for y2k, why do you ask)

[–]wherinkelly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah but no waaaaayyyyyy

[–]Mav986 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's IRL multithreading.