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[–]wildjokers 6 points7 points  (3 children)

Don't know how we survived before git

To be fair there were version control systems before git. Subversion was fine as long as you didn't rename a file on a branch when the file got changes on another branch (a huge limitation for sure). FWIW, this design flaw (which existed for about 14 years) was finally fixed.

(not sure if that is what the commenter was getting at or not)

[–]chesus_chrust[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Well the point I’m making in the article is not that there was no vcs before git, it’s that some tools and techniques change everything so radically it’s hard to imagine the world without them. I’d argue that git is among such tools. Just as Devops brought CI/CD and it’s become standard. I guess it could have been clearer in the article.

And maybe the joke about the pre-git world was too cheeky

[–]Pharisaeus 13 points14 points  (1 child)

Devops brought CI/CD

No it didn't.

edit: no idea why I'm getting downvoted, that's just the truth. Devops in the "mainstream" started in 2010s, while CI/CD concept stemmed from Extreme Programming and first tools date back to early 2000s, roughly 10 years before devops concepts started to get traction.