Comments on: Chapter 2: Tools http://cafe.elharo.com/web/refactoring-html/chapter-2-tools/ Longer than a blog; shorter than a book Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:20:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: John Cowan http://cafe.elharo.com/web/refactoring-html/chapter-2-tools/#comment-237681 John Cowan Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:31:20 +0000 http://cafe.elharo.com/uncategorized/chapter-2-tools/#comment-237681 Oh please, <i>please</i> tell them not to use Visual SourceSafe! Even @#$% <i>Microsoft</i> doesn't use VSS any more -- that is one can of dog food that is way past its pull date. It stinks on ice. Can you say "random database corruption"? If they are using VSS, tell them the first priority is to switch to Subversion <i>before</i> refactoring anything. Oh please, please tell them not to use Visual SourceSafe! Even @#$% Microsoft doesn’t use VSS any more — that is one can of dog food that is way past its pull date. It stinks on ice. Can you say “random database corruption”?

If they are using VSS, tell them the first priority is to switch to Subversion before refactoring anything.

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