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Well, you've already got 5 answers to this question, so that seems to be way better than average... 
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We're artificially affecting his statistics. 
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If it's perceived that the answer given is correct, why would anyone want to bother adding to it? Really, isn't all your want one right answer ?
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That's exactly it. He has a question but he is reticent to post it because he feels that he won't get an answer. And what is implied in his non-posting is that he feels someone DOES in fact have the exact answer to the problem but is withholding the answer for some reason known only to that potential answerer.
Which is something because he might not even notice this answer because he is unattentive to the thread or has invested little time establishing a rapport with someone posting inside of it and wouldn't expect any headsup from someone who does notice things like this.
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Could that be rephrased as:
"It's a conspiracy against him because those who give him something for nothing are not giving him enough." ?
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Conspiracy?
This is a "conspiracy"
https://iaero.me/mcchecker
What is YOUR definition of it?
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I've been watching questions for a number of years, and I seem to see a pattern emerging...
Keep your question vague and ambiguous, ask something that someone can somehow construe as controversial, and if at all possible, don't ask for an answer, but rather ask for others to commiserate on how much of a victim you are. None of this helps you get an answer, but it gets the question attention. Eventually, someone will chime in with an actual answer.
[Yes, this is tongue-in-cheek.. but I'm not kidding about the emerging pattern thing.]
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Coming from years of using TeamCity, Jenkins, Hudson, JIRA, BugZilla, YouTrak etc, etc, I've had to start using VSTS.
I can't figure out if I'm being a luddite or it isn't that great a tool. I'm finding it a really unpleasant experience. It feels like it's in my way rather than helping me.
The total lack of time booking to tasks is just plain odd. You can only leave time on a task or add remaining time, there's no facility to say I did 3 hours on this ... I'm just not groking it.
It feels like there are so many screens and pages to delve into to do even the simplest of things.
Am I alone?
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You may have it set for the wrong paradigm. We have ours set for Scrum so it allows only an estimate of future time cost (and even that's unnecessary).
If you want actual time cost you may have to tweak the configuration to allow that.
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NOT.
On a job interview the R&D manager [a technically strong person, but not the innovative type] told me:
"You should know that we use CVS here. Some of the young guys tell me we should switch to git. I always ask them to convince me. But no one has succeeded [hah!]"
... such stuff as dreams are made on
modified 18-Apr-18 12:05pm.
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megaadam wrote: Some of the young guys tell me we should switch to git. I always ask them to convince me.
Tell him there's already a git in the office, when he asks who/where tell him to look in a mirror.
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And at that point you got up and headed for the door...
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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I suspect he was just stress-testing you 
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What's a drugstore chain got to do with source control?  Where to git drugs? 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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megaadam wrote: I always ask them to convince me. But no one has succeeded [hah!]"
Sometimes the reason someone can't be convinced of anything is because they're just too dumb to understand.
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Having not used CVS myself, I can only take a stab in the dark but unless you can prove that the amount of time spent dealing with it is less than what you would spend on a private GIT repo, you'll never beat free, open-source CVS.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
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Why would he? Over the years there are hundreds of projects with thousands of commits accumulated in an average company. Trying to port all that to a new source control "just because" would be the definition of insanity.
throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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I can't think of any reason good enough to compel a company to do that.
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You rarely need to look at commits from 2014 or so. But if you do you can script the port.
For smaller teams up to 10 people CVS or git does not matter much, but if your organizations grows a lot CVS will be elephanting painful.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Seems to me he probably has a good idea what the resource cost is of changing source control systems. We changed from source safe to TFS, I know a bloody silly decision, it took weeks to accomplish and we lost a sh*t load of information in the process.
Innovation for innovations sake is a waste of time and money!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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But sometimes you also have to calculate the cost of retaining a stupid system.
I've been working with CVS (CVSNT) and can tell you that I would (almost) always change to a better system on every project I work actively on.
The biggest problem with CVS:
Versioning is on file level, not on repository level. I'll leave it to the reader to work out all complications that stem from that.
They are many, including that branching is so buggy it just simply doesn't work.
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Thankfully we don't use CVS but we are about to move from TFS to GIT I believe.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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For us the transition from SVN to GIT was relatively painless, as GIT could convert everything nicely including the SVN tag history
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...and that's when the fight started.
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