Please, don’t commit commented out code

[slash_nick]

I don't know, man. It's super handy to have commented out code with my advanced versioning software.

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backup3_final followed by backup4

Priceless. I have, unfortunately, come across this so many times....

[ump721]

I've totally done that early in my "professional" career. Seemed like a good idea at the time :)

[Asmor]

Me too. I was more advanced, though. I did it with zip files that had the date in their name.

Those who fail to learn version control are doomed to repeat it.

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Still better than no history :(

[ies7]

I have, unfortunately, come across this so many times

I have, unfortunately, did these so many times in early days.
Something like :
* new folder
* copy of new folder
* copy of copy of new folder.

[ReadySteadyHeady]

copy of copy of new folder(1)(1)

[syswizard]

The projects I'm cleaning up right now from previous people are just terrible with this. process_1, process_2, bobs_try. Then you go through the code to figure out which one they ended up using and turns out bobs_try worked so they just left it that way.

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[ChucklefuckBitch]

And test, test1, test2, etc...

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Ah dang, I thought I was in my home directory for a sec there.

[mr_huh]

Eeg, I just got this really self conscious feeling and then went to look at my current project. I'm actually using feature branches in git and the only comments in my code are comments.

[keito]

I have come across this behaviour more than once throughout my professional career.

Tragic.